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Originally Posted by Quoth
Re-read what you wrote and consider USA is less than 5% of people.
It's because of the stupid USA system that I frequently don't know what date is used. Hence I use YYYY-MM-DD when I remember.
The 08/01/2024 is wrong for 2024-08-01 in most of the world. It's no more correct to claim it should be 1/8/2004. Both are REGIONAL variations.
As are Color, and Colour, or °F vs °C, or A4 vs USA Letter size.
See also USA gallon and UK Imperial Gallon (The Metric system was adopted in 1799 in France and added to by the British).
Or one of several USA cup measures vs Imperial and Japanese. They are regional variations that cause errors and confusion.
Recipes should use grams for solid and millilitres for liquid.
The USA systems are neither correct nor wrong, but outdated and obsolete. Since increasing world wide publishing and communication starting in the late 19th C. they cause confusion outside the USA. It's cultural imperialism to claim dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy are correct.
NASA even lost a Mars probe because of them.
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I'm not going by a personal preference. I'm going by what makes more sense. August st makes more sense then 1st of August and in that case 08/01/2024 makes more sense then 01/08/2024.
However, I do agree that 2024-08-01 should be used worldwide.
And if your argument for the date format is because it's less used, then when is the UK going from left side driving to right side driving?