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China uses YYYY/MM/DD, which is logical.
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What China (and Japan) uses is YYYY年MM月DD日, which IMO is the superior date format since it's self-explanatory - the sections are spelled out right there!

the only logical format.

signed: a hungarian :)


For me, the only format that doesn't make sense is the MM/DD/YYYY, together with its rarely seen worse sibling, MM/DD/YY (07/27/26).

Let's just go with YM/DY/MD (27/26/07)

But only for Americans, and make them weirdly dogmatic about it.

Agreed. It's objectively mixing the order (medium/small/large)

lpszReleaseDate ;-)


You can sort dates and they are in order with this format.

You mean a Big Endian.



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