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On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:15:32 +0100
Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> although I wonder if it's common for USA date order to use
> dashes.

US date formats normally use a forward slash and MM/DD/YYYY is the more
common ordering (which reflects spoken US English - it's more normal to
say "June 5th" than "the fifth of June.") Dashes get used mostly in a
computing context where software may be prone to barf on encountering
the slash (*nix treating it as a directory separator, Win/DOS as a flag
indicator.) Computing also does see YYYY/MM/DD used instead, since that
ASCII-sorts automagically, but it's not common in any other context.