This date format works for just as much of the year as DD/MM/YYYY though, and is just as ambiguous as the other format is if you don't know who the author is.
I now this is a bit beside the topic, but I basically know of two date formats: those with slashes in the, one should ignore because they have no meaning (because they are ambiguous) and an iso-like format which starts with yyyy and uses hyphens and I know I can rely on it to be yyyy-MM-dd so there is no risk of ambiguity (Unless of course someone uses yyyy-dd-MM but I don't think that format is a thing, it would be like writing a quarter past six as 15:06)
I work at google and frequently collaborate with people from Germany, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the US. I always use YYYY-MM-DD in docs and emails to make sure everyone understands. It's still somewhat common to see mixups between the Americans and everyone else around MM/DD and DD/MM though.
If you give people a good reason, they'll actually care. "Use YYYY-MM-DD as it allows us to sort by date in the filesystem" is a great reason. On the other hand, bickering about DD-MM-YYYY vs MM-DD-YYYY because "that's how it is in my country" just makes me roll my eyes.
ISO 8601 is pretty common amongst the engineers I've worked with. Odds are they didn't grow up with it unless they're from China or a handful of other countries that primarily use YYYYMMDD.
I work with lots of geographically dispersed and culturally diverse teams. The rule I always enforce is to spell (or abbreviate) the month in all dates. The other numbers tend to work themselves out.
Tangential: Google search date range only accepts MM/DD/YYYY even if you’re on a different version of Google with a different locale. Really lazy if you ask me. Must be confusing to a lot of people, too.
This is really frustrating. Its format is not indicated on the form so my natural (in ja-jp) YYYY/MM/DD input interpret as weird date. I never use MM/DD/YYYY format other than this. This is localization 101 problem on big tech's main product.
It's a free-form text field; there's a very good chance it was an absentminded choice (it's probably how I'd write it, as an American, if I wasn't thinking too hard).
The good news is that GitHub Advisories are publicly editable, so you can always suggest an update to this one.
I was very annoyed when I worked for a global company that used DD-Mon-YYYY, like 01-Apr-2020. Moaned and groaned about how they chose a non-standard format instead of an ISO standard.
Of course, I later found out that is a standard format, and I suppose it's easier on non-technical people even if it stinks as a computer guy. Egg on my face.
month/day/year makes sense. the way you euro's do it is stupid. when someone asks you "where were you on X date" do you respond with: "Well on the 23rd day of november i was at X place"? LMAO. stop occupying the same universe as me.
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