Dates should be expressed in ISO-8601 format

[b-jazz]

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Brief Description

When entering dates in the filter for thanksgiving to christmas, 11/23/2017 -> 12/25/2017 doesn't work because it expects a format that is specific to a particular region of the world that I'm not familiar with. It would be much better if YYYY-MM-DD format was used for the dates since that is a clear, international standard for representing dates.

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[willemarcel]

Hi @b-jazz

Thank you for your report! Are you trying to filter the edits using OSMCha, right?

[batpad]

Thanks for the report @b-jazz -- @willemarcel the date format seems to be defined and hard-coded here: https://github.com/mapbox/osmcha-frontend/blob/master/src/components/filters/date.js#L50

I would definitely be in favour of either adapting to user's locale or following a more standard YYYY-MM-DD. Obligatory xkcd

[b-jazz]

@illemarcel that's correct, on the filter page. @batpad thanks for clarifying and including the perfect XKCD.