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ISO 8601 ftw rule (gregtech.eu)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (14 children)

No because the year is a super large time; there's a reason people always say they take a bit to adjust to writing the new year in dates because it's s long enough period of time that it almost becomes automatic.

For archiving, sure; most other things, no (logically, ISO-8601 is probably the best for most cases, in general, but I'll die on the hill that MM-DD-YYYY is better than DD-MM-YYYY).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (11 children)

well either you omit the year, or you start with it

americans start with the month and end with the year, which is totally wild

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

well either you omit the year, or you start with it

Why? Because you say so?

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

Because "context -> precision" is exactly the reason someone earlier gave as reasoning for the American system?

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