Actually a really smart way to teach endian. I no longer need to do that but it would have been useful lol

Fun fact: you can be the change you want to see!

I fill out all paper forms and typed dates as yyyy-MM-dd wherever possible. No one has ever been confused by it. Some have even copied it.

I also give units in metric sometimes and set some of my thermometers to C to help build my intuition for what different C temps feel like.

On the other hand I'm setting up a hobby machine shop at home and trying to use metric or a metric lathe would involve too much swimming upstream so alas - it is all imperial stuff.

Why would you want to do that? I don’t think Europeans realize how familiar technical and engineering minded Americans are with metric. It’s just so overplayed.

GP is right my default reaction as a MM/DD/YYYY dumb American was that you didn’t make sense because that is the internationally standardized unambiguous format and what we all use for dates where sorting or i18n matters. Sorry for rant you probably don’t deserve it but for real that is the lamest joke imaginable and your content is good enough that it doesn’t need “dunks”

Edit: get dunked on

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Much of that depends on country for usage.

In the U.K. when handwriting I think dd/mm/yyyy is much more common than dd.mm.yyyy

> Please don't use dd-mm-yyyy

I wasn't listing a date format, but a date order; the dashes were not meant to be separators. That said, I tend to use year-month-day, in RFC-3339 format. Although I honestly don't lose sleep about it.

> It's better to use different separators to clarify the date format. The three common formats are yyyy-mm-dd, dd.mm.yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy.

As an American, I most commonly see day-month-year written as "April 17th, 2025" or "4/17/2025". I'm sure "4.17.2025" exists, but e.g. it is not what a locale-aware date formatter will output for U.S. locale.

Here's my hot take: One should generally either use locale-specific date formatting, or use RFC 3339 or ISO 8601. They both have a time and a place where they are more appropriate. Sometimes it's just simply going to be more correct and less confusing to use a locale-specific date format, especially if you have to deal with passing dates between different entities. (As an example, if I were filing legal documents, I would most assuredly use the standard in a given locale for dates. Maybe a long, unambiguous form just to be safe, if it happens to be applicable.) In any case, using another option that isn't either of these seems counter-productive to me.

I think it's weird how people get overly attached to issues like these. It is a shame that date formats can be ambiguous, occasionally causing preventable problems, but we'll survive. Stuff like this doesn't get fixed over night.

What about \d{2} \w+ \d{2,4}

I've redacted that part (https://github.com/Patryk27/website/commit/818c27967d7e6332c...), since it doesn't quite make sense if you think about it for longer than a couple seconds; it's 23:02 for me at the moment, maybe the night will bring me a new joke!

Not just Japanese, but I believe most East Asian countries as well.

Interestingly, not only with dates, but they order things from the “biggest” to the “smallest”

Like Year-month-day for dates.

Family name - personal names for names.

And for address, they start with country, city, street name, then house number. Opposite of what is more common in western countries. I actually find it more useful as very often I remember which street my friends live in but not the house number, and I can type it in and expect google maps to give me the result based on my search history. Not so useful with house numbers if you can’t remember them.