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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 553 points 10 months ago (55 children)

YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.

[–] Remavas@programming.dev 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

Glad I can count my own country, Lithuania, among the enlightened.

EDIT: Source of the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Date_format_by_country_NEW.svg

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Canada threw up their hands and said, "Fuck it, I don't care, use whatever date format you like."

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

We are ridiculously inconsistent in Canada. I've seen all 3 of the most popular formats here (2023-11-22, 11/22/2023, and 22/11/2023) in similarish amounts. Government forms seem to be increasingly using RFC 3339 dates, but even they aren't entirely onboard.

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