ISO 8601 or bust.
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This.
I can handle DDMMYY[YY] it reads correctly. But YYYYMMDD is numerically correct, most signifcant to least significant digitwise.
That thing only American's do, is completely non-sensical.
For sorting or filing, I agree. I think in day to day life, though, Day and month are way more significant. So I actually prefer DDMMYYYY for that.
DDMMYYYY would be great, if it weren't for 95% of Americans that use MMDDYYYY. Is 07/02/2000 July 2nd or Feb 7th?
Thus the only solution is to write out the month or start with the year, because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM. Plus by using YYYYMMDD you get the added benefit of the dates all being sortable using dumber applications.
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I absolutely loath the American favorite: 8/9. Like fuck, is that August 9th, September 8th, or just a fraction??
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8601 for life
I expected to see this when I looked at the comments, and you didn't disappoint me!
So glad this is the default in Japan. 🇯🇵 😌
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YYYY-MM-DD
Thaaaank you
Hungarians feeling superior with their YYYY.MM.DD fornat.
Although that's not ideal for URLs
I believe this is still valid according to ISO 8601 so have an upvote. It also works fine in URLs after the host part.
For history, sure, but for day to day stuff I think I can remember what year it is and don't need it right at the front lol
I use this for notes, and generally everything written; mainly for reference when looking back on old information. Today, whether I say Wednesday the 9th, or 2023-08-09, it's fairly inconsequential, but in 2-3 years if I have to reference a note, email or something else where I said today's date, I won't have to compare the date of the note to the calendar for that time period to see which 9th was on a Wednesday.
Everything you do now becomes history, so adapting to this format makes it easier when today becomes your history.
And programmers tend to go: "I don't need to comment my code, I know what it does" 😂
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What about YYYY/MM/DD?
Use hyphens instead of slashes and we're on the same page.
Works , but MMDDYY ugh
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yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win
I like DDMMYY but for some reason when I include the time as ss:mm:hh nobody shows up to the event on time.
Tired: ISO date format
Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch
Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang
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I'd have to say April 25th because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
to make things as not confusing as possible, my rule of thumb is:
- yyyy-mm-dd (yyyy instead of yy ensures that it's not mistaken for dd-mm-yy) (hyphens can be replaced with underscores)
- dd.mm.yyyy (yyyy same as above) (really dislike using for filenames, sorting doesn't work)
- mm/dd/yyyy (only if there is no other choice) edit: mm/dd/yyyy vs mm/dd/yy doesn't matter because both make 0 sense already edit2: i forgor to say that yyyy also avoids y2.1k and subsequent issues
The first one you listed is an ISO standard date format, and is the only way to go :)
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I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.
It's because people keep taking screenshots of the image and sharing the screenshot instead of the original image file. It's like making a copy of a copy of a copy until it looks like garbage.
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because they get downloaded from say reddit and then reuploaded again a year later or so which since most sites/services compress files uploaded they get worse and worse quality
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To eliminate this confusion I propose the days of the month should start from 13.
I say we force them to be alphabetical.
Anuary Bebuary Carch Dapril
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Date aside, what's going on with that " blank character " bullshit in the " question " ?
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