The 'Perfect Date' No One Expected

The 'Perfect Date' No One Expected
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When someone asks about "the perfect date," most people think romance. Programmers? They think ISO 8601 violations and the eternal hellscape of datetime formatting.

DD/MM/YYYY is the hill many developers are willing to die on. It's logical, hierarchical, and doesn't make you question whether 03/04/2023 is March 4th or April 3rd. Meanwhile, Americans are out here living in MM/DD/YYYY chaos, and don't even get me started on YYYY-MM-DD purists who sort their family photos like database entries.

The real kicker? "Other formats can be confusing really" is the understatement of the century. Every developer has lost hours debugging date parsing issues because some API decided to return dates in a format that looks like it was chosen by rolling dice. Date formatting is the reason we have trust issues.

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