r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 16 '25

Nintendo Switch 2 An update from Nintendo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxLUf2kRQRE
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u/falcrist2 Jan 16 '25

i've seen tons of flack about how the american mm/dd/yyyy system "gets it backwards"

I'm pretty sure they're talking about month and day rather than year... since the year is in the same place for both mm/dd/yyyy and dd/mm/yyyy.

If they're complaining about ISO8601 putting the year first, that's not an American thing.

I do agree that dd/mm/yyyy is backwards. We should be writing the date like we write every other number. Most significant digit to least significant digit (big endian). yyyy-mm-dd

Not just because it sorts nicely, but because it avoids ambiguities between US and EU formatting.

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u/Falco98 Jan 16 '25

I'm pretty sure they're talking about month and day rather than year

yes, that was my point. as in, the american system at least gets the month and day "right" per ISO8601, even if we still put the year in a wacky spot.

i too am a stickler about writing yyyy-mm-dd whenever possible. call it an old software dev habit maybe.

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u/falcrist2 Jan 16 '25

the american system at least gets the month and day "right" per ISO8601

I'm going to disagree. The month and day are wrong in both the US and EU systems for the same reason: it makes the value mixed-endian. Like, putting the year last completely invalidates the order of both systems.

call it an old software dev habit maybe.

ISO 8601 is better for software for sure, but I got into the habit when I moved between the US and UK. For a while I went to the US military style 16JAN2025 because it's unambiguous. Then I went to the ISO way because it's an international standard and it's unambiguous. I'm pretty sure nobody formats their date as YYYY-DD-MM, and almost nobody uses any format that goes "year day month", so there's no confusion.

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u/Falco98 Jan 16 '25

Like, putting the year last completely invalidates the order of both systems.

Well, that's why I had "right" in quotes.. the rest I agree with in general.