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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3788390

Repost from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8qt94a/endianess_of_date_and_address_formats_in_europe/

On the reddit comments some user wrote the address format for Russia is wrong on this map, they use big-endian as well.

Also Hungary is the only country in Europe where we use big endianness in names, aka Eastern name order: surname first, firstname second.

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[-] mercano@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’m an American, but always use big endian dates when naming files or folder on the computer. That way, an alphabetical sort is also a date sort. (Probably why ISO dates are also big endian.)

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

NUMBERS are big endian. You read them from left to right. 61 is greater than 16, no question asked. A date is just a special number, it's not decimal, but uses a custom system

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

me to but I change the month to a letter to save a digit

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

J is January, June or July? There is a reason months shortened to 3 letters. It's longer than the 2 digits.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I just start at A and go to L

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