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Localization Meets Ambiguous Dates
DataFormats Post #4155 · source on Telegram

Localization Meets Ambiguous Dates

Description

A black-and-white stick-figure comic shows a sign labeled "LOCALIZATION WORKING GROUP" and "UPCOMING MEETINGS." The sign lists "US TEAM: 2/3/22" and "EU TEAM: 2/3/22." A person on the right says, "AND THE EUROPEAN FORMATTING AND LOCALIZATION TEAM WILL MEET A MONTH LATER..." The joke is that the same numeric date means February 3 in common US formatting and 2 March in much of Europe, exactly the kind of ambiguity a localization group should have caught.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The localization team found the bug in production: the requirements were stored as `MM/DD/YY` and parsed as organizational chaos.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The localization team found the bug in production: the requirements were stored as `MM/DD/YY` and parsed as organizational chaos.

  2. @Rumbatutumba 4y

    but today is 2/2/22

  3. @andreyegoshin 4y

    actually today is the ideal day for us and eu localization team meetings

  4. @myhandle0909 4y

    Only meeting that can happen is once in a month on 2/2/2022 3/3/2023 lol

  5. @dosse91 4y

    YYYY-MM-DD: the SUPERIOR date format

    1. @mxkrsv 4y

      Yes.

    2. @sylfn 4y

      also ISO standard

    3. @RiedleroD 4y

      I like YYYY.MM.DD more also YYYY.MM.DD-HH.mm.ss for date + time

      1. @RiedleroD 4y

        lmao tg trying to format this as a link is adorable

      2. @feskow 4y

        German sieben-und-zwanzig and american MM-DD-YYYY have the same energy

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