Endianess of date and address formats in Europe and the US

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Endianness in the context of formats refers to the ordering of information: little-endian means most specific to most general (e.g. day, month, year), big-endian means most general to most specific (e.g. year, month, day) and middle-endian is a fugue-like mix (e.g. month, day, year). American dates are famously middle-endian, due to the way they are pronounced when spoken. As this map show, European addresses are the same.

Visualisation details

• Endianess information obtained from ICU Locales and UPU website.
• Map templates obtained from Wikipedia.
• Visualisation done using Python, Pillow and Pudzu.

Collection: writing - Tags: date-formats, address-formats - Source: reddit.com