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Year-Month-Day best everywhere

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To the commenters justifying the written form MM-DD-YYYY on the basis of preferring to say the name of the month followed by the day (which the written numerical sequence does not preclude you from doing). If someone were to say something like “the time is a quarter to eleven” do you think they would have a case for writing it 45:10? And if so, how would you deal with the ambiguity of “ten past ten” if they wrote it 10:10 instead of 10:10?

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This guy’s throwing wrenches into engines

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10 Aug 2023 is the superior format for handwritten dates, no misinterpretation of the date itself or an improperly written divider.

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better than the absolutely deranged MM/DD/YYYY and imo the best when it comes to international communication

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How the fuck does second largest to smallest to largest make any kind of sense?

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I’ve been told " You don’t say 6th June, do you?" too many times

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In the U.K. we do all the same. Sixth of June.

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It warms my heart to see so many comments in the camp of “I use it everywhere”. Absolutely same here. You are my people.

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Together with hh:mm(:ss) for times and +hh:mm for timezones. Don’t make me deal with that 12am/pm bullshit that doesn’t make any sense, and don’t make make me look up just what the time difference is between CEST and IST. Just give me the offsets +02:00 and +05:30, and I can calculate that my local time of 06:55+03:30=10:25 in India.

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