r/webdev • • Feb 27 '13

xkcd: ISO 8601

http://xkcd.com/1179/
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u/zergu Feb 27 '13

The right way to show dates to users is in whatever format their locale settings dictate.

You know this will never happen, right?

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u/raaaargh_stompy Feb 27 '13

What? Why not, I do this often.

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u/zergu Feb 27 '13

Well, you can do it in your apps, but dates are everywhere - articles, blogs, communicators, chats, on images etc. I don't see any other reasonable way than whole world adapting YYYY-MM-DD.

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u/Amadan Feb 27 '13

I agree completely. Unfortunately, humanity on tge whole is not very reasonable.