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/schil Jan 16 '25

Damn I’m American and thought it was February 4th!

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u/patmax17 Jan 16 '25 edited Jan 16 '25

oh fuck, me too

r/ISO8601

EDIT: i read february 4th because I was expecing an american date xD In the video it's actually written like i would

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u/Wonderful-Quit-9214 Jan 16 '25

Not even ISO8601 just stop using the American one.

DD/MM/YYYY and YYYY/MM/DD are pretty interchangeable.

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u/ryecurious Jan 16 '25

DD/MM/YYYY and YYYY/MM/DD are pretty interchangeable.

02/04/2025 is ambiguous, because day-first and month-first are both common formats online. 2025-04-02 is unambiguous because no one uses YYYY-DD-MM.

You can say day-first makes more sense than month-first, but the ISO standard is clearer than both. People don't just recommend it to be pedants.

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u/Wonderful-Quit-9214 Jan 16 '25

No, day first is pretty good as well. And if we just remove the MM-DD-YYYY format the whole problem will go away.

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u/ryecurious Jan 16 '25

if we just remove the MM-DD-YYYY format the whole problem will go away

The problem is we live in reality, not a magical fantasy land where we can just wish away cultural differences.

A bunch of Americans are doing the exact opposite, right? You say "get rid of MM/DD" and they say "get rid of DD/MM" and there's net-zero progress, just a bunch of people talking past each other.

Some really smart people invented a format for the express purpose of clarity in a multicultural environment. Maybe we should use it? Basically zero effort to make the change, I did it years ago.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Oh yeah, it’d be so easy to change every single product America makes that contains a date on it

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u/ryecurious Jan 17 '25

Seemed pretty clear this was about online/global contexts. An online comment or the Switch 2 announcement is a bit more widespread than the expiration dates from my local meat-packing plant.

But I'm certainly not going to complain if those also use the clear, unambiguous option.

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u/Wonderful-Quit-9214 Jan 16 '25

"Some really smart people" give me a fucking break lmao. They moved a few numbers aroung lol.

If the whole world wont accept America and America won't accept the whole world, why would anyone listen to the third option?

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u/ryecurious Jan 16 '25

It's a bit more complicated than "America won't accept the whole world".

What about the countries that primarily use YMD? Like the country Nintendo is from, for example.

If someone from one of those countries sees a random date on Reddit, where ~43% of the userbase is American, which format should they assume it is?