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0 pointsghusto2y ago0 comments

> the dashed version is better than the dot version

:) yeah I'm fine with either. Just typed with dots out of habit.

> The same would apply to dd.mm.yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy with people who don't indicate what country they're from. A few other countries use DD/MM/YYYY

I thought maybe that was a typo and you meant "A few other countries use MM/DD/YYYY"? But then I looked on that page and only saw a few places that use a variety. Usually when a country uses multiple standards for anything, it's a sign that one of them is "token". For example English is one of two official languages in India:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

English would be widely spoken there, but it's widely spoken everywhere without being an official language.

So if we take countries that say "yeah whatever, we'll do MM/DD/YYYY too", that leave America ;)

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Thorrez2y ago

Oops, it was a typo, I did mean "A few other countries use MM/DD/YYYY".

According to the page, the Philippines, Panama, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands use it as the primary format.

And Ghana and Togo use MM/DD/YYYY as the primary format in Ewe.

According to [1], Canada's official format is YYYY-MM-DD; and both MM/DD/YYYY and DD/MM/YYYY will lead to confusion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Cana...

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