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As another swede, I dare you!

We swedes use standardized ISO 8601 dates such as YYYY-MM-DD as dictated by our excellent government and you find it in use in our social security number, government correspondence and mostly everywhere.

> YYYY-MM-DD as dictated by our excellent government

Same here in germany! ...Which is the reason why everyone ignores it in favour of the traditional format.

I love democracy, and also mountain-shaped temporal unit ordering ^ It's 28.05.2025 13:15.

Text-ordering by date is a nightmare because everything is first grouped by day-of-month, then month, then year! :)

So dates have endianness?

And Americans use Middlianness. Middle-endianness?

great, now i've just wandered off wondering if there's psychology studies on the affect of one's endianness on their mental health. like, does one's parent object not show enough affection towards the middle-endian child objects vs their big-endian child objects, or will the little-endian child objects always win affection?

I guess some people just want to see the world burn.

Even more fun when that includes date or time ranges; I've literally had to paste Swedish-style dates into Claude to help me parse what the intended reading is.

Being able to does not mean that you should

-20.6

Not 28/5 '25?