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Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12 (thebeaverton.com)
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Because he didn't know about ISO8601. The only correct date format, especially in Canada.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The rest of the world's date system is most certainly not DD-MM-YYYY.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Care to elaborate? In my part of the world it absolutely is, with only some confusion sometimes caused by American dates

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Large parts of asia (and prob some elsewhere) use YYYY/MM/DD