If a European tries to make fun of the American date format, ask them how that say the number 186.
If their language says it "one hundred eighty six" or something close to it, then fine, whatever, let them criticize.
But if their language says it as "one hundred six and eighty", or even worse, "one hundred four twenty six", then they can politely shut their mouth.
Poirot: Americans put the month before the day Hastings.
Hastings: Well.
Poirot: They are backwards people.
As a developer with 40+ years in the backpack, I'm thinking my next project will only accept dates as YYYYMMDD (and YYYY-MM-DD), and force usage of 24h time. I may, possibly, allow for dates to be *displayed* as DD-MMM-YY (or -YYYY) ... π€
This is my silent revenge on y'all for not pushing for standardizing on the only logical date and time formats π π π€
#developer #programmer #standards #programming #devops #coding #iso #dateFormats #timeformats
The fun part of that is that a necessary pre-cursor would be going back to get ISO 8601:1988 ratified almost a decade earlier than it was in our universe.
The sad part is that, conversely, in our universe ANSI X3.30-1971 and FIPS PUB 4 had standardized YYYYMMDD years before the IBM PC was invented.
#ISO8601 #DateFormats #TimeTravel #retrocomputing #FIPS #ANSI #FIPSPub4
UPS emailed me to say they're about to deliver a parcel "Sat, 12th April". Or, maybe part of their system is cursed and uses middle-endian date format, which screwed-up how a different part of their system parses dates, and the parcel is due to arrive today? π€·πΌββοΈ
For storage, I agree, YYYYMMDD (YYYY-MM-DD), but for display and date entry, my perfect date is DD-MMM-YYYY.
Only alpha month indicators solve the problem if 07-08 is the 7th of August or the 8th of July.
Finally got around to fixing up my moment-javaformat plugin so it publishes to npmjs with provenance. Not too much trouble to set up! I also updated my github signing key while I was at it so the UI shows "verifiedβ.
Here's the latest: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@rangerrick/moment-javaformat
But it's terrible and you shouldn't follow that link unless you want psychic damage.
strike one: moment, donβt use it!
strike two: dates! not even once!
strike three: wait, what the fuck, java format strings?
Format Moment.js using Java format strings. Latest version: 2.0.12, last published: 5 minutes ago. Start using @rangerrick/moment-javaformat in your project by running `npm i @rangerrick/moment-javaformat`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using @rangerrick/moment-javaformat.
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