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[–] prayer@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wikipedia says China uses Year, Month, Day exclusively, so they do place month before day.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 22 points 1 year ago

Oh shit yeah ISO 8601, that’s cool.

Thought it was like the stupid M/D/Y thing.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow ok. Do they do that in practice? Like in Australia we measure everything in metric... except for all the things we measure in imperial.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Live in China, yes it's consistently applied. But they also spell it out, i.e. today's date would be 2023年10月4日 (year-month-day / nian-yue-ri), so the order is unmistakably.

[–] hypelightfly@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

So one of the only countries that does it correctly. (Day Month Year is just as wrong as Month Day Year)