dd/mm/yyyy date formats are cursed.... Perhaps it is mm/dd/yyyy (really?!?) that is cursed....
mm.dd.yyyy is cursed, too. The not-cursed options are dd.mm.yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy
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#12"Some phones will silently strip GPS data from images when apps without location permission try to access them."
Uh... good?
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#13"Some phones will silently strip GPS data from images when apps without location permission try to access them." Uh... good?
I'm torn. Maybe a better approach would be a prompt saying "you're giving access to images with embedded location data. Do you want to keep the location data in the images, or strip the location data in this application?"
I might not want an application to know my current, active location. But it might be useful for it to get location data from images I give it access to.
I do think if we have to choose between stripping nothing or always stripping if there's no location access, this is the correct and safe solution.
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#15dd/mm/yyyy date formats are cursed.... Perhaps it is mm/dd/yyyy (really?!?) that is cursed....
dd/mm/yyyy is most common worldwide (particularly Europe, India, Australia) followed by yyyy/mm/dd (particularly China, Japan, South Korea).
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_c...
IMO the best format is yyyy/mm/dd because it’s unambiguous (EDIT: almost) everywhere.
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#16The '50 extra packages' one is wild. The author of those packages has racked up a fuckload of downloads. What a waste of total bandwidth and disk space everywhere. I wonder if it's for clout.
The author is almost certainly ljharb.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
mm.dd.yyyy is cursed, too. The not-cursed options are dd.mm.yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy
in what world could mm/dd/yyyy not be cursed!? that makes no sense whatsoever.
It's the US short form, matching the word-month order we always use for regular dates: "August 7, 2025".
Note the slashes are important, we don't use dots or dashes with this order. That's what GP was getting at.
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#18dd/mm/yyyy date formats are cursed.... Perhaps it is mm/dd/yyyy (really?!?) that is cursed....
dd/mm/yyyy is most common worldwide (particularly Europe, India, Australia) followed by yyyy/mm/dd (particularly China, Japan, South Korea). https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_c... IMO the best format is yyyy/mm/dd because it’s unambiguous (EDIT: almost) everywhere.
Not only is YYYY/MM/DD unambiguous, but it also sorts correctly by date when you perform a naive alphabetical sort.
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#19dd/mm/yyyy date formats are cursed.... Perhaps it is mm/dd/yyyy (really?!?) that is cursed....
dd/mm/yyyy is most common worldwide (particularly Europe, India, Australia) followed by yyyy/mm/dd (particularly China, Japan, South Korea). https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_c... IMO the best format is yyyy/mm/dd because it’s unambiguous (EDIT: almost) everywhere.
I like CCYY-MM-DD because it's also a valid file name on most systems, and using "CCYY" (century + year) instead of "YYYY" feels fancy.
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#20dd/mm/yyyy date formats are cursed.... Perhaps it is mm/dd/yyyy (really?!?) that is cursed....
dd/mm/yyyy is most common worldwide (particularly Europe, India, Australia) followed by yyyy/mm/dd (particularly China, Japan, South Korea). https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_c... IMO the best format is yyyy/mm/dd because it’s unambiguous (EDIT: almost) everywhere.
For a really cursed one that breaks your last comment, check out Kazakhstan on the list by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_countr...
> Short format: (yyyy.dd.mm) in Kazakh[95][obsolete source]