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minus-square@Etterra@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-1•1 year agoMM/DD/YYYY is the correct format here in America.
minus-square@EngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoI think the point was that the format itself is odd. I am European and it’s weird to me: logically it should be either from greatest to smallest, or from smallest to greatest, not a weird in-between.
minus-square@atzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoLogically it would be milliseconds since 1970.
MM/DD/YYYY is the correct format here in America.
I think the point was that the format itself is odd. I am European and it’s weird to me: logically it should be either from greatest to smallest, or from smallest to greatest, not a weird in-between.
Logically it would be milliseconds since 1970.
Not very good for birthdates.