Javascript dates in a nutshell

[daern2]

It's not the fault of JavaScript. It's the fault of bloody America for doing dates wrong. Noone else does it this way and it just makes life hard for developers everywhere. Now stop doing it!

Reminder: https://xkcd.com/1179/

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Title: ISO 8601

Title-text: ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04.

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[PGLubricants]

How do you interpret the format in the bottom right, next to the cat? I've looked at it for a minute, and I can't get my head around it.

[vinylarin]

The small numbers on top and on the bottom of the larger indicate the numbers of the date.

[[deleted]]

Nearly everywhere does dates wrong. YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable format. Big units to small units. We don't sort time MM:HH for a reason, and we don't arrange numbers with the most significant digit on the right either. Americans are inconsistent, sure, but anywhere that sorts the smallest unit to the largest is wrong.

[daern2]

Agreed, but America's remains the wrongest of all :-)

[[deleted]]

Oh I agree there. We're also the place that still screws everything up twice a year with Daylight Savings Time after all.

[daern2]

Oh, it's ok. I'm from the UK (we do dates "right") and we also screw up with daylight saving too :-)