KITCHENER – Local man Dalton Strickland, whose data entry job regularly requires him to read dates off a form and put them into a computer, literally never knows which date is the day and which is the month unless the day is above 12. “Are we using the American MM-DD-YYYY system or the rest of […]

Because he didn’t know about ISO8601. The only correct date format, especially in Canada.

    • Hagdos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Care to elaborate? In my part of the world it absolutely is, with only some confusion sometimes caused by American dates