USA is the edgy teen after moving out of the parents house (Europe) and finally doing stuff their own way. Not because it is practical, but because they feel rebellious.

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[–] Chev@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

09.08.2023 (dd/mm/yyyy) anybody?

[–] volcanocompetent@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like it for reading and using the date day to day

But yyy-mm-dd is best for sorting and archiving files

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[–] autisticBreakcore@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (7 children)

DD/MM/YYYY is the best in my opinion

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YYYY-MM-DD is better if you need to sort

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with this because if you were to say the whole thing verbally, you generally start with the day, the month then the year.

"It is the 9th of August in the year of our Lord 2023."

[–] ShunkW@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We wouldn't in America in most cases. I'd say it's August 9th 2023. I honestly feel like this is such a dumb argument to have because it doesn't matter except for communication with people who use other methods. Now metric vs imperial makes way more sense to me because the metric system is just so much easier for mathematical conversions.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.

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[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In the USA most people would say “august 9th”, not “the 9th of august”, which is one of the reasons mm/dd/yyyy is the standard format here

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[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

ISO 8601 or nothing. Descending order of granularity, keep everything sorted as it should be!

[–] Waker@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My personal preference is DD-MM-AAAA, but as someone that works with lots of data from different formats and timezones... I have to agree with you...

YYYYMMDD and UTC should be the global default.

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[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RFC 3339, because ISO is not free.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me more? I can look it up but I'm curious if anybody ever got problems from using a standard like that

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

ISO charges for their standards

https://www.iso.org/store.html

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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Aug 9, 2023 and 08/09/23 literally say the same thing.

[–] CosmoVerde@kbin.social 88 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They do but one informs the reader of the order of the format while the other doesn’t.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look it's easy, you just wait until the 13th of the month to figure out which format it is. Is 12 days really so much to ask?

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[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first isn’t ambiguous at all; the second is hella ambiguous.

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[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

08/09/23 literally says the 8th day of september.

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[–] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goddamn German memes invading everywhere.

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[–] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

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[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last two are both dumb, YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY or go home

Yes I'm American

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[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last two are the same thing though

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

The last one is ambiguous because it could be either august ninth or september eigth.

[–] scottywh@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I swear, a lot of you would have no joy in life if you weren't able to bitch about the stupidest shit.

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[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Reddit ass post

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

09/08/2023 (I'm an American who doesn't care what everyone in my country uses if that "custom" is nonsense...)

[–] ScottyShines@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im a Canadian, and unfortunetely we use both formats, with no context.

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[–] meatwad75892@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

9AUG2023

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[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unix time is the best format

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Date stamps are stupid, but they're nowhere near as stupid as this attempt to criticize them

[–] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

13/AUG/2023

[–] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If it’s a file I want sorted by date the top is good. If I am talking about a date and spelling it out August the 9th of 2023 makes the most sense and seems natural, and if it’s a personal memo or date label on food I just use 08/09 with the zeros so I know it isn’t a fraction unless it’s frozen or shelf stable for long term storage where the year would be useful to know at which point it becomes 8/9/23

I thought everybody used different date formats based on need.

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