It annoys me even though I’m still in the U.S.

Edit: For everyone saying CVs and resumes are different, that might be literally the case, but that is not how job applications are using them. I just went to this one:

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The only correct format is from greatest to smallest: yyyy-mm-dd

This is, in my mind, verifiable by noting the way that lists are ordered when using this format. They are sequential. This isn’t true for either of the other formats.

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As a programmer I agree. I have fucked around with trying to parse unrestricted user inputs of dates and I have found out.

Year first is the only way I can actually know which value is day vs. month.

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Why don’t programmers make a programme that can read dates instead of complaining that dates aren’t in a obscure format?

They in control of their own issues.

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The date is 12/11/2024. Am I talking about yesterday or a day about a month ago?

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Because all the other programmers suck.

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Yep, most to least significant is great because you can sort dates temporally with a numeric/string sort.

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4 points

Yes.

If I saw that in a job advert I might just apply without reading the rest. I don’t think I ever have though.

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It’s great for lists but I don’t know a single person who’s gonna say “hey let’s meet up on 2024 December 11th.”

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Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”

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In German and Swedish, “the twelft eleventh” would be totally fine. Beside this would be November 12th. The German way for the year would be twothousandtwentyfour while the Swedish would be twentyhundred twentyfour.

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It’s the format used in large parts of Asia.

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You must not know many programmers that have had to deal with American date formatting then.

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I used to be a programmer myself (originally studied it for game design but now I’m a 3d animator) and it’s why there’s a specific default data structure built in to most programming languages to handle dates and internationalization of those dates.

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