Oh yeah, I would normally say there is no wrong way… but going from medium scale, to small scale and then jumping to large scale is just insanity. And you can’t argue with the inherent sortability of the 2021-12-21T21:58:55 format. Biggest scale at the front and smallest at the end. Having the year at the start also solves the confusion of whether 01-02 is February first or January second as there is no commonly used date format that uses yyyy-dd-mm.
The point is there are some formats that work better. I had to stop using the format I am used to because my coworker might read it wrong but there is a format that works for both sides. Now we only have to train my coworkers to also use that format.
Which format is what you use, I mean unless it actually says the month-day-full year then its less confusing but if its just 00-00-00 then its still confusing no matter which way you look at it.
Imagine its 12-22-22…or 22-12-22 or Dec-22-2021
Canada like to use 22 year 12 month day 22
I exclusively use yyyy-mm-dd. Yes, even in my windows settings.
The worst thing that could happen with that format is that someone who hasn’t seen it a lot would find it kind of odd. But they would still know what date you are referring to.
Using words clarifies what the month part is, but removes sortability from the format. So yeah, I think yyyy-mm-dd is the format that leads to the least amount of confusion. And it also happens to be an ISO standard, which helps if someone complains about using it, lol.
I love how this thread drifted from payments to date formats… But I’ll give my opinion too although we’re off topic!
In my company we’re trying to follow “Opquast” (OPen QUAlity STandards) rules for improving our clients’ web experience, and they explicitly say we should:
Make sure the month is […] not in numerical format.
Indicate the 4 digits of the year.
See:
This said, if we want to stick with numbers only, I think yyyy-mm-dd is the only viable option.
Because yeah…
Exactly that. As already mentionned above, for non-US people this is just confusing, but also it is error prone when day and month are lower than 13!
I’d really love to know why, someone one day, decided to write dates in that order…
Are you sure? In the USA maybe, but I don’t believe that’s true for the rest of the World? If I remember correctly, people in the UK would say “The 25th of July” for instance, and not “July the 25th”.
Written or spoken, that mm/dd order is just… counter intuitive I’d say