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YYYY-MM-DD in Hungary too, that us shit is totally non logical, i cant get used to it
49 4 ReplyThis is literally the most logical method to name a date in text.
12 2 ReplyIn what text?
In French we say “14 juillet 1789”
We don’t even say “nth day of”
2 0 ReplyIn a text like "the research started at 2003-01-24", or pretty much in any other text where you need to convey all 3 elements.
I bet you also don't say "14 07 1789", because that's what MM format means.
1 1 ReplyYou bet wrong
We write AND say “La Révolution a démarré le 14/07/1789” or “La Révolution à démarré le 14 juillet 1789”
Spoken numbered month are usually used in an administrative context, to ease the work of our contact.
2 0 ReplyOh that's right, the spoken administrative context. Same in my dd-mm-yyyy county actually. Still, I find it less intuitive than the logical yyyy-mm-dd when understanding written text.
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Fuckin wait until you hear how many feet are in a mile. You all should've waterboarded us harder while we were a young country.
9 0 ReplyFIvE tOMaToeS
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It's very easy to sort by this format, makes perfect sense.
8 3 ReplyEasier to sort by YYYY-MM-DD than MM-DD-YYYY tho
7 0 ReplyDammit, I misread here. Of course, the US format is terrible.
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