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    a few years old... how is this still an issue??? i have a Ceremony invitation displayed for the 7/8/2023, and it's due for, if i understand correctly, 8th July 2023 which should be displayed as 8/7/2023 in Europe, or at least to characters in the european datacenters

    also... this issue can be avoided completely if something like Jul/8/2023 is used orwhatever, but 8/7/2023 is just asking for confusion
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    Quote Originally Posted by Octa_Bahjan View Post
    a few years old... how is this still an issue??? i have a Ceremony invitation displayed for the 7/8/2023, and it's due for, if i understand correctly, 8th July 2023 which should be displayed as 8/7/2023 in Europe, or at least to characters in the european datacenters

    also... this issue can be avoided completely if something like Jul/8/2023 is used orwhatever, but 8/7/2023 is just asking for confusion
    While the customary US way of writing dates is backwards and wrong in almost every concievable way, why request another non-standard format as replacement?
    There does exist an international standard (ISO 8601) for writing dates, which avoids most of the confusing cases. It should be used for dates everywhere unless there happens to be a good reason for some other format.
    YYYY-MM-DD. So July 8, 2023 would be written as 2023-07-08.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MistakeNot View Post
    While the customary US way of writing dates is backwards and wrong in almost every concievable way, why request another non-standard format as replacement?
    There does exist an international standard (ISO 8601) for writing dates, which avoids most of the confusing cases. It should be used for dates everywhere unless there happens to be a good reason for some other format.
    YYYY-MM-DD. So July 8, 2023 would be written as 2023-07-08.
    I agree with this. I hate that my country seems to want to do things their own way and is confusing as all heck. The first time I experienced the "other" way of date formatting, I couldn't figure out why we are so backwards on some things. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by MistakeNot View Post
    There does exist an international standard (ISO 8601) for writing dates, which avoids most of the confusing cases. It should be used for dates everywhere unless there happens to be a good reason for some other format.
    YYYY-MM-DD. So July 8, 2023 would be written as 2023-07-08.
    +1 on ISO 8601, but customisability would be the best IMO so that the player can choose the option that makes the most sense to them
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