Thus the only solution is to write out the month or start with the year, because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM. Plus by using YYYYMMDD you get the added benefit of the dates all being sortable using dumber applications.

[–] ibk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM

You are saying it like if MMDDYYYY made any sense. To someone who uses MMDDYYYY daily, they could think of YYYYMMDD as "Its like the usual but backwards" and now you have a group of people reading it as YYYYDDMM.

[–] tillary@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You could convince a group of people to use YYYYDDMM, but what I mean is nobody currently uses it. So at this moment of time YYYYMMDD is intuitive, and has a miniscule chance of being mixed up like DDMMYYYY and MMDDYYYY (because a large number of people use these formats).

Please don't convince Americans to use YYYYDDMM lol. :-)

[–] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Makes sense, I just mostly interact with Europeans, so I don't encounter this problem a lot. I really don't have a problem with YYYYMMDD though anyway.

[–] Paralda@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's because that's how we talk. We say October 5th, not the 5th of October.

[–] tillary@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

English people say October 5th. Spanish people say 5 de Octubre. Same for other languages. That's probably why Europeans prefer the other format.

[–] Paralda@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was talking about Americans specifically