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I've just seen somebody use YYYY/DD/MM a couple of days back…
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Oooh, this is delightfully evil.
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According to Wikipedia, this was probably a Kazakh.
The insanity "mixed endianness" (day in the middle) is in use in very few regions of the world. (Source: Wikipedia, loc. cit.)
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MM/DD/YYYY and YYYY/DD/MM are the worst of the worst.
i personally feel that DD/MM/YYYY is a close runner up, but doesn't quite make it due to there actually being a sensible order to the numbers,
YYYY/MM/DD however is perfect. it's ascibeticaly sortable with no issues!
actually scratch that worst of the worst statement.... DD/YYYY/MM and MM/YYYY/DD are far worse than that.
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Agreed, but nobody actually uses those. Right? Right? Please tell me nobody uses those.
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search your feelings, you know the truth.
:'(
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I think I just found despair. :sob:
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I wouldn't call them far worse. But that's merely a matter of taste.
Anyway, these formats are not the pinnacle of thinkable evil. I think I've seen a calendar with "19" at the left and the year in the century at the right, so it might be considered as YY/DD/MM/YY.
Once we're at it, we might consider reforming the unspeakable German habit of saying "fünfundzwanzig" (literally "five and twenty") instead of "zwanzig-fünf" ("twenty five"). Or, in English, "fourteen" instead of "ten four".
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I think it was rather somebody who just got totally confused by all the dates stuff.
Anything with a
/is horrible, because/is being used with different formats.If you seeSo I went to the locale helper to check what-, you can be reasonably sure it is year-month-day order and if you see., you can be reasonably sure it is day.month.year (used most of Europe). But if you see/, you are down to wild guesses..and-are used with a both are used with both year-month-day and day-month-year order. Neither is used in mixed endian though and day-month-year and year.month.day are quite rare while.Wow. Just wow!