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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hey just a quick style note, I'd encourage you to do dates like (Jan 14, 2019) instead of numbers. Because the order of the values differs from country to country, so many dates can be ambiguous, like 3-4-2019... is that March 4th or April 3rd? That sort of thing

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hear what you're saying. And being as anal as I am about such things it's a HUGE pet peeve. That said, it's also my mission to tech people the proper Metric way of dating things.

12 days of the year may be confused with months. Thereafter it's safe to assume that 14 is the day.

More importantly Metric dates are sortable. December is always alphabetically before January - so it sucks. If you put 01-01-2001 it will get sort-mixed in with 01-01-2019 - so it sucks.

Most ambiguity is with when folks mess with the descending or ascending order of magnitude. Year-day-month or month-day-year are stupid. James Corbett does the latter and he should know better. In 1980 I spent half a year in Calgary, while he was in Calgary. Of course we were kids and never met but they sure were teaching the Metric system until the teachers went on strike.

This is pretty standard on Wikipedia but people still screw it up.

With the Metric time code you always start with largest to smallest units 2019-01-16 20:26:11, though for specific cases one may chose to put the time first it still applies.

The year first is usually a solid indicator that it's a Metric date and most folks don't screw that up. It's often screwed up when they use numbers but put the year last - then it's anyone's guess.

We're not alone : https://www.reddit.com/r/Metric/comments/19hnqy/metric_date_formats/

Not covered here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time nor here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

Maybe my teachers were lying.