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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Christ, do this many people really find iso8601 hard to read? It’s the date and the time with a T in the middle.
Not "many people." Americans. Americans find it hard to read. I'm not 100% sure but I'm fairly certain everyone else in the world agrees that either day/month/year or year/month/day is the best way to clearly indicate a date. You know, because big to small. America believes month/day/year for some stupid fucking reason.
I'm pretty sure it's because of the way we say it. Like, "May 6th, 2023". So we write it 5/6/2023.
That said, I think it's fucking stupid.
I'm not an American and English isn't my first language, so the US way to write dates always confused me. Now, I finally understand it! Many thanks, this is legitimately sooooo useful!