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Cries In SQL Date Time

Cries In SQL Date Time
Nothing says "I'm a keeper" quite like someone who exclusively uses DD/MM/YYYY and refuses to acknowledge the existence of ISO 8601. While the rest of us are drowning in timezone conversions, locale-specific parsing errors, and that one database that stores dates as strings (yes, really), this guy found his soulmate who thinks there's only one true date format. Meanwhile, your production server is somewhere screaming because someone in the US entered 03/04/2024 and now nobody knows if it's March 4th or April 3rd. But sure, let's pretend other formats are just "a bit confusing" and not the reason we have 47 different datetime libraries in every programming language. Fun fact: There are at least 20+ common date formats used globally, and they all hate each other. The only thing developers can agree on is that whoever decided to make JavaScript's Date() start months at 0 deserves a special place in debugging hell.

The Date Format Holy War

The Date Format Holy War
The eternal date format war rages on! While most of the world sensibly uses the pyramid of DD/MM/YY (small to big), and some Asian countries flip it upside-down (YY/MM/DD), the USA just... does whatever the hell it wants with MM/DD/YY. It's like they designed their date format the same way they designed their healthcare system โ€“ maximum confusion for everyone involved. The beautiful irony is that only the YY/MM/DD format is actually ISO-8601 compliant and makes perfect sense for sorting. Meanwhile, programmers everywhere silently weep when handling date inputs from international users. Nothing says "fun weekend project" like writing regex to figure out if 03/04/05 means March 4th, 2005 or April 3rd, 2005 or... wait... 1905?