Standardization

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Professionals have standards! Community for all proponents, defenders and junkies of the Metric (International) system, the ISO standards (including ISO 8601) and other ways of standardization or regulation!

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Wow! It actually makes sense! (i.imgur.com)

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[–] kamenoko 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

for storing dates it's awesome, for displaying dates it's time to teach your programmer how to format shit for humans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It actually is the best for displaying all-number dates to people as well because no one in their right mind will ever do yyyy-dd-mm.

So if you see the year first, you know the format. When the year is last and you see a date like 03-02-2023, you have to take into account the nationality of the author to know if it's March 2nd or February 3rd.

But 2023-02-03 it becomes clear that it's February 3rd.