Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12

2 years ago by dankm to c/iso8601

KITCHENER – Local man Dalton Strickland, whose data entry job regularly requires him to read dates off a form and put them into a computer, literally never knows which date is the day and which is the month unless the day is above 12. “Are we using the American MM-DD-YYYY system or the rest of […]

Because he didn't know about ISO8601. The only correct date format, especially in Canada.

mrbn 75 points 2 years ago

"What. No it’s month first,” responded his girlfriend Christine. The couple subsequently got in a huge fight and broke up, meaning their relationship only lasted from 10/01/2023-05/03/2024, with neither knowing if that is 6 months or over a year.

What a good line 😂

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dankm 6 points 2 years ago

The Beaverton is great.

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lambalicious 2 points 2 years ago

, with neither knowing if that is 6 months or over a year.

I mean, that's the kind of ambiguity that makes exes hot, right?

...right?

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Omnificer 32 points 2 years ago

I didn't know it was called ISO8601 but I started naturally using it at work. It removes confusion among international colleagues, makes it way easier to sort data, and is also good for version control of docs.

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Puttaneska 4 points 2 years ago

Me too. It looks quite normal now and, yes, is great for file organisation.

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workerONE 31 points 2 years ago

YYYY-MM-DD crew checking in

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str82L 21 points 2 years ago

I.e. 2024-10-13

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SirSamuel 13 points 2 years ago

Wait, is that the thirteenth of October, or Smarch 10th?

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pinchy 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, lousy Smarch weather!

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threelonmusketeers 1 point 2 years ago

It's obviously the 10th of Gormanuary.

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str82L 1 point 2 years ago

Yes

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mle86 13 points 2 years ago

ISO8601 is great and all, but even without a common standard, I feel it should either be largest to smallest unit, or smallest to largest. YMD or DMY. Anything else is just asking for misunderstandings.

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Valmond 9 points 2 years ago

YMD is the way to go, because it auto-sorts on a computer.

Even when you tuck on the time, or would you prefer 59:46:13-14:10:2024 :-) ?

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Bertuccio 4 points 2 years ago

I'm not disagreeing in general, but I need to point out that this is like saying you should write Arabic numerals in order of decreasing powers of 10 because it autosorts on a computer.

It's the reverse. Computers automatically sort Arabic numerals and dates written in decreasing powers because those are the correct formats.

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o2inhaler 0 points 2 years ago

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Hagdos 2 points 2 years ago

Are computers the most important thing?

Usually when I read a date I hardly care about year, because most events I read about are within a year

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PopularUsername 3 points 2 years ago

Leaving aside the problem that you are choosing a date system depending on who is using the dating system and for what purpose, under that condition the most logical would be MM/DD/YYYY, which is truly terrible, so I'm going to politely ignore your argument.

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Hagdos 1 point 2 years ago

Leaving aside the problem that you are choosing a date system depending on who is using the dating system

I'm choosing one for humans, that'd seem to be the group that uses date systems most. Picking a new datesystem for each purpose would be insane, but also exactly what's happening in computer systems.

under that condition the most logical would be MM/DD/YYYY, which is truly terrible, so I'm going to politely ignore your argument.

I fail to see that conclusion? Why would that be the most logical?

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Bertuccio 3 points 2 years ago

Well that throws out DD-MM-YYYY because it's second smallest, smallest, fourth smallest, third smallest....

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mle86 2 points 2 years ago

Heh... not what I meant, but technically correct

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rekabis 9 points 2 years ago

ISO-8601 is the only true time format. Big-endian all the way, baby!

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mipadaitu 1 point 2 years ago

I also only use data formats that can be alphabetized.

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darkpanda 7 points 2 years ago

My favourite is when you’re reading documentation for an API or an SDK or whatever and the examples show things like “2024-05-05” as the date where they’re both the same number and you can’t discern it at all. Like, use Halloween or Christmas or something as the date so it’s always obvious, eh?

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Valmond 7 points 2 years ago

07/05/09

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spookex 1 point 2 years ago

9th of July 2005?

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CanadaPlus 6 points 2 years ago

Unironically a major consideration for me if I was scheduling a C-section.

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Bertuccio 3 points 2 years ago

The rest of the world's date system is most certainly not DD-MM-YYYY.

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Hagdos 4 points 2 years ago

Care to elaborate? In my part of the world it absolutely is, with only some confusion sometimes caused by American dates

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LwL 8 points 2 years ago

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

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