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One tip: if you use dates, please use YYYY-MM-DD and not MM/DD/YYYY. The first format is universally understood, the second one almost always trips me up since we use DD.MM.YYYY in Germany.

Usually, datetime stringification takes a locale, and uses the formatter for that locale. Doing i18n by picking one "universally-understood" format, rather than just giving each user the format colloquially familiar to them, is rather uncommon.

You're right. This tip was meant to be used in non-localized UIs.

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