Date fails on dd/mm/yyyy

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 11:09 -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> Perhaps another place to address this would be GNU Coreutils mailing lists?
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/#mailinglists

Hi,

I seriously doubt that this makes sense.

On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 16:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
"[snip] This date ordering makes computerized sorting of dates easier by
avoiding the need for a separate sorting algorithm." -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographic_order

A lot of developers were born before the year 1980 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_native ).

There are good and bad reasons to hold on to certain things.

As long as our governments are unable to get rid of the daylight saving
time and time zones, we should avoid to make it more worse by different
ways of writing a date.

Regards,
Ralf (not a digital native)