With that said, it's hard to control what systems others use. I frequently work with datasets that have 4-5 different timestamp formats.
One of the most annoying bugs I've worked on, was in a table where almost everything followed a DDMMYYYY format - sans a 2-3 month period where the dates were flipped to MMDDYYYY
Isn't this overly 'you' centric? Wouldn't this require access to your inner monologue? Doesn't seem like a referentially invariant supporting argument, to _me_.
Iso 8601 is about date formatting, while article is about a bit orthogonal to that. (But I agree/hope that ISO 8601 is the future that is less ambiguous than current state)
Is a low effort way to make someone form a rebuttal in response to no argument. It is pseudo intellectual way to sound smart while offering nothing in return. As if that persons opinion has weight because “they don’t see the relevance”, I know lots of people that “don’t see relevance”. Is our responsibility to educate their feigned confusion?
My confusion wasn't feigned. I'm actually confused how the comment was relevant to the article. Someone being confused and asking for clarification is a common way that conversations progress and learning happens. It's no one's responsibility to comment on HN. If someone wants to discuss this, that person can reply.
(Maybe useful, comparison)
It's a common one, sadly. Anyone using the US date format for transfer or storage (debatably also display) should consider it a bug.