• RBWells@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Like the American below, I generally use 30-December 2023 partly because I work with an international company but mostly because after the century rolled over and we had years that looked like months I got confused.

    Had a boss that formatted all dates as YYYY-MM-DD because that makes them sort correctly in lists.

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      6 months ago

      I work in an international company too! And yet, this confusion persists :-/

      I also format everything YYYY-MM-DD for my personal use too. When writing prose, usually some other format is just fine, but I really would love if everyone did year-month-day

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      6 months ago

      I insist on YYYY-MM-DD because it allows me to use “MM-DD” for short and piss off the euros

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        6 months ago

        The MM-DD format, as a euro, pisses me off. I use YYYY-MM-DD though. It’s the recomended format by ISO, and it allows me to name files with that format and sort by name.