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

Day/month/year is not in the same category as y/m/d. That crap is so ambiguous. Is today August 9th? Or September 8th? Y/m/d to the rescue.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only ambiguous to Americans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Or anyone who has to work with Americans. Especially when you also work with other countries as well. You can't assume dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy blindly in either case. yyyy-mm-dd solves the issue entirely because both sides at least agree that yyyy-dd-mm isn't a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You're almost there, just use - instead of / and everyone knows what you mean