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jchw ◴[] No.43721219[source]
> yes, this blog is a proud user of the european date format - if you don't want to see yyyy-mm-dd's, please press alt-f4 and go back to boycotting bud light or something

Interesting to call this the "european date format", given that prior to ISO 8601 I'm pretty sure this date order was almost entirely used in East Asia and not Europe. To me day-month-year will always be the European date order.

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flexagoon ◴[] No.43723275[source]
> To me day-month-year will always be the European date order.

Please don't use dd-mm-yyyy. It's better to use different separators to clarify the date format. The three common formats are yyyy-mm-dd, dd.mm.yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy.

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1. rpep ◴[] No.43725936[source]
Much of that depends on country for usage.

In the U.K. when handwriting I think dd/mm/yyyy is much more common than dd.mm.yyyy