Google, what are these absolutely cursed date format options!??

Posted 2025-11-14 | Back to blog index

Google, what are these absolutely cursed date format options!??

Just give me YYYY-MM-DD 😭

I literally have to count out the month names on my fingers since for a decade+ I have lived in a world of Japanese dates (numbered months) and SQL timestamps 😭

A screenshot of the Google Cloud users Preferences/Languages paneThe date options are:March 14, 201514. March 20152015. March 14.

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