Re^2: rt.cpan to close, 01/03/2021

> I know it is 01 Mar 2021, but with the stupid US date format still being used, the title could easily be misinterpreted.

Punctuation helps me

01.03.2021 EU format
2021-03-01 ISO format
03/01/2021 Who cares format
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Cheers Rolf
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Re^3: rt.cpan to close, 01/03/2021 by Tux (Canon) on Dec 24, 2020 at 14:28 UTC
I agree with the last two, but to me the first is confusing already, as Europe uses different puntuation everywhere :( The dotted `DD.MM.YYYY` seems to be popular in older EU documents and Post-Soviet states. In The Netherlands we use `DD-MM-YYYY`. I think that we are blessed anyway, as Ireland is a lost cause: "In Ireland, the date is written in the order "day month year", with the separator as a stroke, dot, hyphen, or just left blank. The year may be written with four digits or just the final two, sometimes with an apostrophe to mark the omitted first two digits." Conclusion: Disambiguate and use ISO! (but whatever you use, never use `/` and/or `D` in the middle.) Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: rt.cpan to close, 01/03/2021 by LanX (Saint) on Dec 24, 2020 at 15:25 UTC
> In The Netherlands we use DD-MM-YYYY. That's surprising me, from my experience if something is alike in France and Germany, it spread to the whole EU°. (the often cited "common European house" is basically Frankish Empire++, at least the Catholic/Protestant parts of Europe) Anyway, we should agree on ISO here YYYY-MM-DD, it's already (semi-)official in many countries. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery} °) NB: Brexit EU	[reply]

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