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ISO8601

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Community dedicated to the international standard YYYY-MM-DD date format.

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Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12 (thebeaverton.com)
submitted 1 year ago by dankm@lemmy.ca to c/iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org
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Because he didn't know about ISO8601. The only correct date format, especially in Canada.

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[–] LwL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Large parts of asia (and prob some elsewhere) use YYYY/MM/DD