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Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log

jelabarre59

Re: International Standards Organization

Just kill the stupid US date format.

Even as an American, I dislike the US method of writing dates. It's neither Big-endian or Little-endian, but rather scrambles the sorting order entirely. For that matter, when it comes to proper sorting order, I prefer YYYY-MM-DD (or YYYY/MM/DD) as that's immediately obvious for intent, as well as readily sortable.

Otherwise, if I need to write out a date I need to send someone, I'll use a YYYY-mmm-DD (3-letter abbreviation for the month) or YYYYmmmDD.

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