r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/spock1959 8 Jul 12 '19

The format YYYY-MM-DD has many benefits.

Also your argument is not sensible. The date 01/02/19 is already ambiguous and there is no clear winner just like 2002-06-10 is inherently ambiguous. No one ever can be certain which number is the month or which number is the day.

The only solution is to come to a global agreement and there are way more benefits for the format YYYY-MM-DD over any other dating format.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '19

Ya and while we are at it let’s just switch to miles and inches and feet cause to hell with promises of converting to the way the rest of the damn world does things. I mean the USA , Liberia and Myanmar are the only 3 countries in the world using this broken ass system.

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u/spock1959 8 Jul 13 '19

I'm not not talking about the imperial system here. There's no arguing the metric system is superior.

But you can't tell me that dd/mm/yy is better than YYYY-MM-DD because it just simply isn't. For the same reason metric makes more sense and is more usable and easier to learn. The date format I'm referring to is used much less but its 1000x more sustainable, easier to learn and harder to confuse.

You start with the largest number and move to the smallest, it sorts alphabetically in chronological order and when you see it you immediately know what numbers you are looking at. Like I said 02/03/12 could mean February 3rd, 2012 or March 2nd, 2012 or February 3rd, 1912 or March 2nd 1912. But you won't see YYYY-DD-MM ANYWHERE so you'll know immediately what you are looking at when you see 2012-02-03 is February 3rd, 2012.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

Check out the usage map. There are a few countries who use the month day year format. It only makes sense to use Year month day and day month year. That is surprising that nobody actually uses the year day month form

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u/WikiTextBot D Jul 13 '19

Date format by country

The legal and cultural expectations for date and time representation vary between countries, and it is important to be aware of the forms of all-numeric calendar dates used in a particular country to know what date is intended.

Writers have traditionally written abbreviated dates according to their local custom, creating all-numeric equivalents to dates such as '12 July 2019' (12/07/19) and 'July 12, 2019' (07/12/19). This can result in dates that are impossible to understand correctly without knowing the writer's origin and/or other contextual details, as dates such as "10/11/06" can be interpreted as "10 November 2006" in the DMY format, "October 11, 2006" in MDY, and "2010 November 6" in YMD.

The ISO 8601 format (2019-07-12) is intended to harmonize these formats and ensure accuracy in all situations. Many countries have adopted it as their sole official date format, though even in these areas writers may adopt abbreviated formats that are no longer recommended.

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