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Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12 (thebeaverton.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Because he didn't know about ISO8601. The only correct date format, especially in Canada.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

ISO8601 is great and all, but even without a common standard, I feel it should either be largest to smallest unit, or smallest to largest. YMD or DMY. Anything else is just asking for misunderstandings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well that throws out DD-MM-YYYY because it's second smallest, smallest, fourth smallest, third smallest....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Heh... not what I meant, but technically correct

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