Offtopic blogging tip: Americans will read dates like "8/9/2026" as "August 9, 2...

majorchord · 2026-09-08T15:49:35

Highly disagree that either is more sensible than the other, especially given how each culture actually uses dates in their speech.

Or we could follow Japan and just use ISO 8601 directly and write 2026-08-09.

JohnTHaller · 2026-09-08T18:11:38

I use this for everything except where I write the month out or use an abbreviation. Much easier.

nosioptar · 2026-09-08T16:08:42

The only real sensible date format is yyyy-mm-dd, makes it easy to sort.

dreamcompiler · 2026-09-08T16:46:57

Agreed. You can leave out the hyphens to make sorting even easier with almost no loss of readability.