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In the American date system it's 7/14/21 today, right? 🤔

Classified · 2021-07-14T10:52:17-04:00

I Have a Date - In the American date system it's 7/14/21 today, right? 🤔 Our 14/7/21 doesn't look as good, 😋... (63 replies).

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Month/day/year is the best!

Day/month/year rules all!

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Our 14/7/21 doesn't look as good, 😋 but I still think the day/month/year notation makes more sense. 😌

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dirge

if you deal with computers and things across many timezones enough, you'll come to appreciate setting everything to zulu time and using yyyymmdd.hhmmssms

dirge

@dirge but yes, for your original question, americans tend to say/write 'month, day, year'

Classified · M

@dirge That setting is mostly used when you notate the date in character format, right? 🤔

dirge

@Classified it's sorta short hand for the generic words, almost in unix format time spec. 4 ys to denote the full year (2021, 1982 instead of '21 or '81). I think I could probably dig out the full, correct spec with a little work...
root@hydra:~# date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S
20210714.153337

Classified · M

@dirge That's a very precise time stamp