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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 00:38:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Jeremy Kahn
   • Alex Hall

   @alexhall @trochee
   In contexts where ISO 8601 won’t work, I strongly prefer to write the month name alphabetically for exactly this reason.

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     Alex Hall (alexhall@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 00:38:44 JST Alex Hall

     There's always confusion about writing dates, especially between Britain and the United States. Month day year, or day month year? Slash, period, or hyphen as the separator? I wish all countries would adopt the obviously superior year-month-day format. It's unambiguous, save to use in file names (slashes aren't), and, if leading zeros are included, sorts by date even if sorted as string values. Happy 2023-11-06, everyone.