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Comment by ckolkey | Hacker News Reader

Unless I'm mistaken, it's shown in a format localised to the user, so... i'd much rather you keep your hands off that, and I'll enjoy my DD.MM.YYYY

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ISO-style timestamps are the only only one that makes any sense.

YYYY-MM-DD or GTFO.

no need to fight over it, compromise is both elegant and simple:

    YMYY-YD-DM

Non-jokingly, Kazakhstan has YYYY-DD-MM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

A UTC-style compromise if ever there was one.

That would be easy, but if you have an app with localization then it's not useful. And also it's impossible to make the formatting consistent with other formatting in your app.

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