I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?

Flying Squid@lemmy.world · edit-2 16 days ago

I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?

GamingChairModel@lemmy.world · 15 days ago

when you ask a computer to sort things for you, it will automatically order things correctly when the date follows this format

I’d go even further than that, and point out that the reason why computers sort things in this order is because that’s the most logical way to convey specific dates.

Most significant digits on the left, descending left to right, in order, is how we do all other numerical representations. It’s only dates that we have different norms.