I’m a bit lost here. Should I use british conventions? US conventions? Is there indian conventions? Or maybe cultural points I should be aware of?

Google is confusing me more than it is helping me?

Thanks.

  • someguy3@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Avoid confusion in dates by saying May 6, 2024. This is the Canadian way because we had dd/mm/yy but American influence of mm/dd/yy led to mass confusion. Everyone switched to May 6 to avoid it all.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There’s also ISO 8601, which does YYYY-MM-DD, though that doesn’t permit for writing out the date as a name or not specifying the year (the latter of which…might be a plus, I suppose). That’s internationally unambiguous. Anything of the format NNNN-NN-NN is YYYY-MM-DD everywhere.

      I also like it because unlike either DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY, the numeric and lexicographic sort order is the same.

      • someguy3@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Oh we’ve canadianized this too. We have yy-mm-dd. The two digit year makes it really fun. Pretty sure I’ve seen yy/mm/dd too. And we have yy-mm-dd where the mm is a two letter abbreviation with MA and I have to look it up each time if it’s March or May. We also have yy-mmm-dd with the more common letter abbreviations. Those are all government abominations of ISO.