On 6/24/24 11:42, Bret Busby wrote:
On 24/6/24 21:38, Curt wrote:
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You can become confused, though, when filling out US forms where
the birth date is written M/D/Y instead of D/M/Y, and sometimes you have
to be careful not commit the silly mistake that will entrain months
of delay in intricate *dédales* of the administration.
This is because the USA is a few hundred years behind the rest of the world,
and, cannot comprehend ISO standards -
the ISO standard for date, is
2024-06-24
YYYY-MM-DD
which is the most efficient way of expressing a date, using the components
of year and month and day of the month
I use that format where I can because ASCII sorting == date sorting. No
weird mental gymnastics required.
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