• fidodo@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It’s also the most relevant information first. I don’t care about what day it is if I don’t know what month it’s in. If it’s an unambiguous context they can just be omitted.

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      8 months ago

      Not only that. Processing logs with DD/MM/YYYY in many systems will result in octal base error because of the leading 0 in dates such as 07 08 09, and don’t let me talk about how some languages read the back slash / … pukes in shell