On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 23:18, nch via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:10:25 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > One nitpick: I'm not sure how to read the last two dates. I can infer > > it's not day/month/year but not sure if there are year-month-day > > conventions that use slashes. > > They are in MM/DD/YY format, which is common in the US (under the argument > that it mirrors the way people tend to say dates IE "May 26 2020" = 05/26/20. > I'll make the years 4 digits, but I'm indifferent to the order overall as long > as it's clear.
Sure, that's fine. The argument you give is language-dependent. When I was in school in Canada I think the convention was DD/MM/YY which makes sense in French, but is confusing when you're right beside a MM/DD/YY country. I think Mandarin dates are almost literally said as YYYY-MM-DD. Agora is an English-speaking community, but I think it's good to aspire to more portable dates. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Canada Canada now recommends YYYY-MM-DD (yay!) but it also says year/month/day is used for shelf life. I personally like YYYY-MM-DD because the endianness is consistent (largest-to-smallest both within the numbers and overall) and also because lexicographic sorting means sorting by date. - Falsifian
