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If magic lamps were real, this would be my first wish.

Almost like asking: Can't we all, just get along and adopt the same language? Cause that goes over well here in America where we don't have an official language. :)

as a programmer, I would love it even more if everyone adopted the same date format. Makes date parsing a lot easier.

Specifically, the ISO one (YYYY/MM/DD)

Dont worry, we already do. Almost everything is manufactured in metric and later converted to other systems. The tools are calibrated in metric per international standards. The only solid, scuentific, definitions of the pound or mile are metric.