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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 09-May-2022 12:31:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Date formats:
   
   Little endian, DD-MM-YYYY
   + Progressively adds context, you can stop when it's clear enough
   + Widely used in many countries
   + Compatible with how e.g. Swedish speakers express dates verbally
   
   Big endian, YYYY-MM-DD
   + Progressively adds precision, you can stop when it's precise enough, including going into time of day
   + Lexical sorting is chronological sorting
   + When dashes are included it cannot be mistaken for another date format
   + Widely used in many countries
   + ISO standard
   + Compatible with how e.g. Chinese speakers express dates verbally
   
   Mixed endian, MM-DD-YYYY
   + Compatible with how e.g. US English speakers express dates verbally
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 09-May-2022 12:41:19 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     in reply to

     • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:
     @aryak I will jokingly say that too, but I don't genuinely think that's a good reason to not use it.
     
     On the other hand it's not a good reason to use it either.
   • Arya K :archlinux: :emacs: (aryak@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 09-May-2022 12:41:20 UTC Arya K :archlinux: :emacs:

     in reply to

     @clacke mixed endian sucks we can all agree because its used by :vomit: americans

   • Leonardo Di Ottio (leonardodiottio@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-May-2022 12:42:09 UTC Leonardo Di Ottio

     in reply to

     @clacke I’ve been trying to convince Americans to switch to MM-YYYY-DD because it also doesn’t make sense.

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