rich1.0npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8https://nostr.ae/npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8njumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2014-04-05 📝 Original message:On 4/5/14, Matt Whitlock <bip at mattwhitlock.name> wrote: > On Saturday, 5 April 2014, at 12:21 pm, Jorge Timón wrote: >> I like both DD-MM-YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD. I just dislike MM-DD-YYYY and >> YYYY-DD-MM. > > Your preferences reflect a cultural bias. The only entirely numeric date > format that is unambiguous across all cultures is YYYY-MM-DD. (No culture > uses YYYY-DD-MM, or at least the ISO seems to think so.) Probably my acceptance of DD-MM-YYYY is caused by cultural bias. The ISO YYYY-MM-DD seems what you normally do with indo-arabic numerals: put the more weighted numbers on the left, so I guess it's the most universal (in addition to being standard). -- Jorge Timón http://freico.in/