• sajuukar@retrolemmy.com
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    24 days ago

    27 Feb 2013 is unambiguous- regardless of where you’re from or how you write your dates, you can’t confuse 2013 for the month or day, you can’t confuse Feb for a day or week, and if you can’t figure 27 out, then we have bigger problems!

      • EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        2013-02-27 is also unambiguous.

        Hey what’s today’s date?

        It’s 2025 -

        No like the DAY?

        Yeah, it’s 2025, 02 -

        Not the month, the day - What’s today’s actual date?

        Like I was saying, if you’d let me finish, “2025 - 02 - 27”

        I’m mostly joking, but when it comes to info about dates, I think the most evctive format it one that organizes the information within a heirachy that provides follow up answers.

        Formatting dates as day / month / year does just that. Provides the day it is, followed by the month and year as that is the order that information is usually needed in.

        I find providing the year first (or month) is much more ambiguous as neither are the day the actual date falls on.