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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Regular reminder that YYYY-MM-DD is the best date format. In addition to being the only one that's sorting-friendly and compatible with place-value intuitions that we use for everything else, it's also the one that's not confusing.
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
The arguments that YYYY-MM-DD is more confusing or further from human experience aren't really very appealing to me, because East Asia works totally fine with YYYY-MM-DD including in commonly spoken human language, and it feels completely natural.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
ISO 8601 gang reporting in
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JA Westenberg
@daojoan.eth
As an Aussie, first of all, how dare, second of all, how very dare
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Amitt Mahajan
@amitt
Agreed. I’ll also die on the hill that the best way to serialize dates and times to minimize future bugs is as Unix timestamps
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Britt Kim
@brittkim.eth
ISO 8601 or gtfo.
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@links
Thanks for casting this. Now I can appeal to authority whenever I am having this argument with the latest idiot I am working with
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Matt Lee
@mattlee
What format do you use when saying the date out loud?
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Jithin Raj
@jithinraj
While standardization helps and that is technically beneficial, no governing body might want to change the habits and preferences in each region.
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@lk
I like MM/DD/YYYY because it complies with how people verbally communicate dates in English. Just conditioning at the end of the day though.
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frdysk.framedl.eth
@frdysk
Hard disagree, ddmmyyyy is the best
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Gramajo👽
@gramajo.eth
As someone who works with data, please do YYYY-MM-DD
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Shin
@hiteam
I saw my phone saying 9/11 today and for a moment I got startled
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TokenTrack.co
@tokentrack
I agree with mister Vitalik here!
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zhongbencong.eth
@zhongbencong.eth
Yes,YYYY-MM-DD is the best date format.
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Joel Cares
@joel
Make Dates Sortable Again!!
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@metachay
totally agree
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@weird0nut
I totally get that in data science its easier to read but it is arguably still confusing to atleast half of the world's population who grew up in ddyymm basis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
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@0xhamid
Hi @vitalik.eth 👋
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231108 … clean, short, sortable, global 🙌🏽
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