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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] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not disagreeing in general, but I need to point out that this is like saying you should write Arabic numerals in order of decreasing powers of 10 because it autosorts on a computer.

It's the reverse. Computers automatically sort Arabic numerals and dates written in decreasing powers because those are the correct formats.