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Ha! I was subscribed to this bug for most of those 25 years. Note that Firefox didn't exist at the time, this was filed against Netscape Navigator. Don't remember why I was subscribed to the bug, must have commented on it or something. Got the occasional email notification about it over the years, always got a chuckle out of it. Then a couple of days ago, lo and behold, it was fixed!
Wow so this bug is older than Firefox itself
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Germany uses DD.MM.YY(YY). Dashes are for weirdos like me, and only for ISO dates, never DD-MM-YYYY.
And I assume this is the usual one in Europe in general for a human-readable context, like within a sentence. And as you said, dashes only in YYYY-MM-DD which is hopefully used always in any data context.
Off topic but I really dislike the trend of using “human readable durations” like “a month ago”, just tell me the bloody date, I can figure out for myself. Outlook (Mac version at least) is the worst offender. For emails prior to the current day it will say for example just “yesterday” and it will only show you the time if you click on the email. I get dozens of mails per day, having just “yesterday” for 50 messages…
That bug is older than half the audience here... Probably?
The one long term open bug that irks me the most is that you cannot properly date-format the x-axis of scatter plots in LibreOffice: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54132 12 years old. According to the comments, fixing it is discouraged as the code is so "horribly complicated", it would likely cause regressions.
Gotta love it when maintainers are afraid of code they allowed to get merged in.
The one long term open bug that irks me the most is that you cannot properly date-format the x-axis of scatter plots in LibreOffice: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54132 12 years old. According to the comments, fixing it is discouraged as the code is so "horribly complicated", it would likely cause regressions.
Gotta love it when maintainers are afraid of code they allowed to get merged in.
What one maintainer knew and understood, is often fairy dust/spaghetti to another.
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Germany uses DD.MM.YY(YY). Dashes are for weirdos like me, and only for ISO dates, never DD-MM-YYYY.
It's more about the order DD MM YYYY than the separators.
The separators (especially with that order) are not.