Just want to say that DD/MM/YYYY is the superior date format. 💪🗓️
Image Transcription:
A screenshot from the setup of the Remind mobile application with an image of a calendar and the text
"What is your birthday?
This will stay private to you and will help keep Remind safe
Birthday
DD/MM/YYYY"
Followed by a text field that has been filled out with the date “17 / 02 / 2008”.
Below the text field is the red error text reading “Please enter a valid date”
[I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]
The only thing worse than mm/dd/yyyy is dd/mm/yyyy. Use a bloody different separator if you’re writing dates correctly.
It’s already in use for mm/dd/yyyy. When I see slashes I expect that, when I see dots I expect dd.mm.yyyy, when I see hyphens I expect yyyy-mm-dd.
And then comes along a random I guess Canuck and writes something totally incomprehensible.
it’s already in use for mm/dd/yyyy
No, it’s already in use for dd/mm/yyyy. When the majority of the world sees slashes (with the four-digit year at the end), they expect that. Americans are the ones making things ambiguous.
Another possible case no one seems to have mentioned. That the CSS doesn’t do that kind of spacing automatically, and that the user manually put in spaces this creating an invalid date for the lulz.
Still software gore. Spacing should not matter, proper parsing should ignore whitespace in a simple format like this.
Even better, the appropriate spacing/symbols should be automatically added so the user doesn’t have to worry if the form is going to parse whitespace.
