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[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The US system month/day/year is pretty bad, but honestly, so is day/month/year. Pretty much everything else is written from largest to smallest unit. Regular numbers: 123, here 1 is the 100s, 2 is the 10s and 3 is the 1s. In money, when a currency also have smaller units, you always say the largest first. "3 dollars, 50 cents." A digital clock displays the numbers ordered from largest to smallest - 10:45:31. So why are people so proud of the european date format? Writing out a full timestamp would switch from increasing to decreasing units.

ISO-8601 is the only sensible choice.

[-] bradd@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Came to say exactly this. ISO8601 ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿง 

[-] kingvolcano@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I think it was just us Swedes who embraced ISO-8601

[-] dankm@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

It's been Canada's official standard for decades. It's just starting to hit the general population though.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

And the whole of Eastern Europe

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