2w 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?

It annoys me even though I'm still in the U.S.

Edit: For everyone saying CVs and resumes are different, that might be literally the case, but that is not how job applications are using them. I just went to this one:

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Please someone tell oracle and microsoft.
- https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Date.html
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime?view=net-9.0
  Looks like someone already did. Been around since at least JDK 1.1
  
  They need to be told a fuck of a lot harder then.
  
  If you really need a specialized toolset to handle managing dates and times in a program beyond whats already there, then find a library that has the tools you're looking for or make it yourself if it doesn't exist. Extending the date class is always an option.
  
  I'm talking about sotware they produce and my employer buys that i'm expected to use.
  I can't rewrite their "tools" and databases and fucking awful cloud-web front end things. I tend to think multi-billion$ shitware companies should do that; but even so no way I'd be allowed.
  Yes, I do end up having to write my own tools choosing whatever free stuff I'm allowed to have, or can get working, Yes, It's incredibly easy in any half way decent (including free) software, far from rocket science, that is until you try to put something back into a database via one of these "tools".
  So you work around, pre-processing, post-processing, get it working. Then they unexpectedly release a "patch" that sees through my work-a-round and tries to convert the thing i'd convinced it to treat as string into a screwed up datetime again.
  Next time, I will prepend "fuckoracleiquit" to all datetimes before they go into the database.

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