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		toast0 on July 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters i... Really? Almost nobody uses reasonable date formats. YYYY-MM-DD is the only reasonable format, but afaik, US and EU both tend to put month and day first, day/month/year is consistent, but still unreasonable.

youngtaff on July 16, 2023 [–]

Europe uses dd/mm/yyyy, Japan uses yyyy/mm/dd only the US uses mm/dd/yyyy

At work I tend to write dates yyyy/mm/dd so it’s clear to my US coworkers what the actually date is

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