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Most non-programmers use dd-mm-yy[yy], despite 'March 28th' & 28-03 being the norm in America.

It looks weird to me too, but it's hardly indecipherable. You have a four-digit year (2000), there's only 12 months in the year, so the "28" is the day and "03" is the month.

In ISO 8601 format, it'd be 2000-03-28. In American written format, it'd be March 28, 2000.

What's weird about the most common date format in the world, dd-mm-yyyy?

ISO8061 or RFC3339 are the only correct date formats; though if for some forsaken reason your ledger starts accounts on the right hand page and treats the left as part of a prior record, then placing the least frequently changing part of the date to the edge of the page is good as a primitive index.

https://xkcd.com/1179/

https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/522251/whats-the-differe...

Sure, for data-interchange. Good luck convincing normies.

I've never encountered that particular format before, and based on that, I'll question the claim of "most common", but even still, I could understand what was meant.

Have you ever left the united states?

Hey now, don't go insinuating us Americans are nearly that logical. We'd write 3/28/00 every time and consider it a job well done.

How would you distinguish between them in some cases like: 03/03/03?

In that case, you wouldn't have to.

But this is exactly why people hate the ubiquity of dd/mm/yy and yy/mm/dd wheb dealing with american and european dates

I, for one, am an enlightened yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss enjoyer which doesn't have such issues.

what do you mean?

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