Lot of talk of numerics only. The problem there is knowing what format the information is in since clearly there are 3 possibilities. Without context and during certain parts of the month you're hosed. Best to remove ambiguity and go with the alpha numeric format.

DD MMM YY (or alternatively YYYY)

11 Aug 2023

Ambiguity gone.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

23 Aug 23. Ya, no ambiguity. /s

2023-08-23 is the way.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Any date format can be unambiguous as long as it's the one that everyone agrees on, and all date formats will be ambiguous as long as we have several in use.

I kinda gave up, nowadays when i write a date to someone i specify the date format. Like i will send "01/05/2024 (DD/MM/YYYY)" because it's the only way to be sure

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