• ShareniEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.

    • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.

      English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.

      • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Can you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.

        • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Addresses is the main one.

          But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.