@larand ***ISO 8601!!!2!¡*** I recently had a European colleague ask why a drawing time stamp gave validity for only one more day. It turns out US IT had been giving all released PDFs a MM/DD/YYYY US date format, so February was actually August. I asked our IT guy for a change to YYYY-MM-DD, and he agreed it was sensible, would request it. The US IT guy counter-proposed with DD- 3-initial-letters-of-the-month- YYYY. ***Wat!!!*** I pointed the simple fact that only one site in the group has English as it'

@larand ISO 8601!!!2!¡

I recently had a European colleague ask why a drawing time stamp gave validity for only one more day. It turns out US IT had been giving all released PDFs a MM/DD/YYYY US date format, so February was actually August. I asked our IT guy for a change to YYYY-MM-DD, and he agreed it was sensible, would request it. The US IT guy counter-proposed with DD- 3-initial-letters-of-the-month- YYYY.

Wat!!!

I pointed the simple fact that only one site in the group has English as it's native language, one more a bastardised version frequently unintelligible to us Brits[1776. Heh!], and the remaining group members and international suppliers, though many amazingly good with English[2016. Putting-me-to-shame amazing.], would have to mentally process each and…

If it happens it happens. (sighs…)

Strange how wounds can be opened from the unlikeliest sources. ;)

// @matigo @phoneboy @jws @ronnie @feorlen

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