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          06 months ago

          In a text like “the research started at 2003-01-24”, or pretty much in any other text where you need to convey all 3 elements.

          I bet you also don’t say “14 07 1789”, because that’s what MM format means.

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            26 months ago

            You bet wrong

            We write AND say “La Révolution a démarré le 14/07/1789” or “La Révolution à démarré le 14 juillet 1789”

            Spoken numbered month are usually used in an administrative context, to ease the work of our contact.

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              16 months ago

              Oh that’s right, the spoken administrative context. Same in my dd-mm-yyyy county actually. Still, I find it less intuitive than the logical yyyy-mm-dd when understanding written text.

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      96 months ago

      Fuckin wait until you hear how many feet are in a mile. You all should’ve waterboarded us harder while we were a young country.

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      76 months ago

      We do that in Sweden as well. Our social security numbers are that plus 4 unique numbers. The beers I send out to stores have yyyy-mm-dd printed at the bottom.

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        26 months ago

        So no more than 10 thousands of Swedes may get an SSN at the same day (or be born at the same day even 🤔)?

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          Hasn’t been a problem so far. I’m guessing maybe they will add numbers or use letters if it comes up. They recentled started doing that on license plates.