What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 26 points 7 months ago

MM/dd/yyyy date format by default on software

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 17 points 7 months ago

Worst format ever. It should either be dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

yyyy/mm/dd

YYYY-MM-DD

Standard is for dashes in ISO8601.

[-] Oberyn@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

- >>>>>>>>>> / . Fite me

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The worst?? Try mm/yy/dd, and you'll regret everything in your life. Another “great” one is yyyy-dd-mm; it'll infuriate anyone using the ISO standard.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

What fresh evil is this?

[-] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

Okay now that IS the worst, good point

[-] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Omg who uses that?

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Me, for a future April Fools release in one of my projects.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

No one who survived the attempt to require others to use it.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

MM/YY/DDD (Ordinal date)

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 6 months ago

oh god my eyes

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

The best part is, they are two different levels of evil. The ISO standard is the LAST thing someone should alter like that.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

ISO-8601. Accept no compromise.

[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Goodness gracious, it gives me an aneurysm every time I set up a new computer with the en_US locale or have to fill out forms with that date format.

[-] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

This is just the madlads in the US

[-] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

this is just the USA, not the whole west

[-] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Case in point

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