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22 hours ago, barefootjeff said:

You can just do a search with no filters selected and sort the results by Placed date. It looks like these are the earliest screenful:

I have found two of those. The Lane Cove one, and recently Europe's First. I took the train (Dart) from Dublin to Bray and walked to it. A trip done no doubt by many geocachers.

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2 hours ago, HHL said:

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You could draw that picture either way to make one group look like they’re doing it right and the other doing it wrong.  We write our dates differently, it’s really no big deal. I label software files as year-month-day (today being 2023-09-18) in order for them to sort universally. 

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1 hour ago, GeoElmo6000 said:

We write our dates differently, it’s really no big deal.

It can be a big deal.

I know someone who was involved in an international telecommunications link up between multiple countries. Everyone was linked up except one country (easy to guess) and this mucked it up. The person who told me this story rang the person in the USA who hadn't linked up and asked why not, as everyone else was ready to go and they were holding everyone up.

"But it's not the day yet," was the reply.

They were then strongly told off*, and told that everyone else found that this was the day, and they needed to get with the rest of the world.

 

* I have heard this person telling off someone else, so I could almost hear it.

 

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2 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:

It can be a big deal.

You know that MM-DD-YY and DD-MM-YY formats are confusing. In an international setting, use the ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD format instead.

 

As a bonus, YYYY-MM-DD sorts properly when sorted alphabetically, unlike the other two formats.

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Most data storage keeps the Y, M, and D values accurate (thus sort properly wherever displayed); it's not good to store date fields as static text/values.  It's really just the visual representation of date data that can be confusing across country borders. But that's why the visual naming convention is so important when it's not a matter of a system that displays it in localized date format (such as file names that are static).  It's almost always the D/M values when both are <=12 that confuse people if the year is not displayed first.

blargh.

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29 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:

It's almost always the D/M values when both are <=12 that confuse people if the year is not displayed first.

 

Right, I realized when the list of caches showed Beverly as being hidden in the 13th month of the year that I wasn't looking at the date format I was used to

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