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.
@del @lmgenealogy Negative. ISO-8601 or GTFO.
@saramg @lmgenealogy I’m a UXer so the answer is it depends. Let me attempt to soften your GTFO 😂
1.
Friday, 5th May 2023 for humans (and readability). Shortened as appropriate:
- Friday, 5th May 2023
Useful for dates way in the future.
- Friday, 5th May
Most times we can presume the year and drop it.
- Friday, 5th
Drop the month if we’re referring to this month (or next if the numerical value is lower than today).
- Friday
If the date is within seven or so days of today we can even rely on the day of the week and don’t even need the numerical date.
Including the actual day of the week at every stage makes it useful, #accessible and #inclusive, particularly for the #neurodivergent community; as much as 20% of the population.
2.
Obviously all the above is little help when working with data. That’s when 2023-05-03 is the only way.
@del @lmgenealogy I was ready to agree right up until "Friday" by itself. I have had WAY too many arguments with people using that variant incorrectly. e.g. "No, not tomorrow-friday, the next friday, if I meant tomorrow-friday I'dda said tomorrow!"
Which just makes my engineer brain scream.
@del @lmgenealogy
Obviously yes, spoken dates are a very different animal and I never say "See ya on 2023-05-05!"
Written dates though.... I'm less inclined to exclude year and will pretty much only do "5th May, 2023" or "2023-05-05" as the only unambiguous options.
Lynn McAlister UE 
@lmgenealogy @del Right. That's what I mean. X/Y/Z is meaningless unless we're lucky to be talking about a date after the 12th of the month.
ShadSterling@saramg @lmgenealogy @del I just never write the month as a number, or the year as only 2 digits, so it’s never ambiguous. Some might pause for a moment to translate the ordering, but they’ll never misread it as a different date
@ShadSterling @saramg @del I never write the month as a number either, since I live in the US but don't use US dates - writing out the name of the month just prevents confusion.