John2290 said:
Zkuq said:
I was actually thinking about that! I wasn't sure though, so I went with what I wrote. If you ask me, Apr 22 is fine though, since it's not ambiguous which is the month and which is the day and it reads well too.
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It's fine when just doing day/month however it's batshit when doing MM/DD/YY. Makes little sense not to do DD/MM/YY.
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MM/DD is bad anyway, if only because it's consistent with MM/DD/YY which itself is bad. DD/MM/YY is logical, and the consistent choice with it is DD/MM.
SuperNova said:
Zkuq said:
Didn't we just have this thread a few months ago? Did we suddenly get a new person from a 19th century, or was the last thread about the last person from the 1800s? I'm fairly sure it was about the 19th century though.
As far as I know, the Gregorian calendar is the calendar used for many practical purposes, and ISO 8601 isn't used very much in everyday use. As a simple example, dates are not written using ISO 8601 in English. We write, for example, Apr 22, 2018, or 4/22/2018 (which, if you ask me, is a really bad format, but it's still used), and not 2018-04-22.
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Well, UK and US also still cling to the imperial system, besides it making no goddamn sense, so insisting on using an outdated form of calendar isn't that big of a surprise. :P
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OK, let's rephrase that: I don't think there are that many languages/cultures in the world where ISO 8601 is used in everyday use very commonly. English certainly isn't one of them. I'm also not sure ISO 8601 is ever going to get used much in everyday use, because I'm guessing it doesn't read too well.
