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by sofixa 1465 days ago
> Because a very large fraction of people - greater than 90% - use forward slashes in dates

Citation needed

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A forward slash is a very common separator character.

I did this myself the other week. Mac user. Folder was called ‘Lessons/episodes’ from memory. I only noticed it was weird when my Synology didn’t display the character. Renamed to ‘Lessons & episodes’.

It absolutely is. That doesn't mean that 90% of the world population use forward slashes for dates.