• YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    It’s by smallest integer to largest, what’s weird about that?

    12 months a year, up to 31 days a month and X number of years. It makes the most sense

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      1 year ago

      Because it gets horribly fucky when you now have to figure out if a date is actually formatted as MM-DD-YY or DD-MM-YY.

      Surely we’ve all handled reading an expiration date before and have wondered if we’re eating something OK or has expired months ago because they chose the other format.

      (Honestly, I think both formats are shit, and the only correct way to do dates with numbers only is YYYY-MM-DD. If not, then at least use letters for months, like 30 AUG 2023)

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        1 year ago

        Surely we’ve all handled reading an expiration date before and have wondered if we’re eating something OK or has expired months ago

        No, I haven’t, and I don’t know anyone else who has