SaraMGY'all, America desperately needs to embrace the metric system.
Fer reals.
ADHDel-DRAFT-v10-final (2).doc@saramg @lmgenealogy …and start writing your dates the same way as every other country.
Reay JespersenProblem there being, we sure as hell don't have a standard for that in Canada.
In one shopping trip and for Canadian products, I'll see best before dates ranging from 06MR2023 to MAR 06 23 to 2023MR06, along with the ever-loathed 06-03-2023 (with no indicator of what's what, so wait, is that March 6th, or June 3rd?)
More than caring what the format is, I just want us to agree on one and have everyone fucking do it that way.
@reay @saramg @lmgenealogy This. I was thinking of your loathed version. Everyone but the US goes day-month-year. I work for a US-based multinational US and though most of their staff are in other countries they constantly try and push the US format on us —but without any heads up that it’s not making use of our local regional settings.
Aarrrrrhhhhh!!
Aarrrrrhhhhh!!
lp0 on fire 
@reay, do they use JN? I'd be left wondering if that's January or June…
@lp0_on_fire I think that’s a thing, too, yes. And I mean, some stuff you can just figure it out. Dairy isn’t lasting months, so it’s the closer of the two possible interpretations. But, like, peanut butter? No clue.
And all of that would be remedied by just having some (ANY) standard format.