ISO 8601 or bust.
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8601 for life
So glad this is the default in Japan. 🇯🇵 😌
I expected to see this when I looked at the comments, and you didn't disappoint me!
That one for file sorting, the one in the pic for everything else.
Sorry, in Linux everything is a file, so there is no "everything else."
Life extends beyond Linux, though. I was speaking in general terms.
No, YYYY-MM-DD is fine for real life. Just drop the year when it doesn't matter. Billions of people use this format.
So if you communicate with someone you will specify the date in the year 2023 september 23rd we shall meet and not 23rd of september 🧐
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What about YYYY/MM/DD?
Even better, easier sorting.
Yeah, that's the one you use for filenames. Backup images and the likes.
Works , but MMDDYY ugh
Tired: ISO date format
Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch
Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang
Impractical waste of computing power and information storage
Not if you encode it using an exponent. One Planck time unit is roughly 1.8 x 10^-43^ seconds, so with an exponent of 2^128^ (roughly 3.4 x 10^38^) you could write a second as 54510 x 2^128^ T~P~
Another fun fact, 2^128+32^ Planck time units are about 21 hours
Also almost killed all computing in y2k
I like DDMMYY but for some reason when I include the time as ss:mm:hh nobody shows up to the event on time.
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 :)
if i write a date on paper i tend to go with 2, but yes
I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.
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
It's the modern version of the VHS or cassette tape.
yall trippin, it should be MMYYDD
Look at this moron. DY-MY-DM is the only logical date format.
This is some enigma date code shit.. nearly broke my head trying to work out my birthday
Edit: fuck I see why my birthday wasn't making sense now, you have the same digit of day and year
next gen American:
I'd have to say April 25th because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
To eliminate this confusion I propose the days of the month should start from 13.
Do we really even need months? They don't even line up with the lunar cycle like they pretend to do.
Just give us Year/Day. On leap years we get an extra long New Year holiday.
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Date aside, what's going on with that " blank character " bullshit in the " question " ?
my best idea is a give my gf a white claw and she isn't mean to me
This rarely works, btw
Going day to day, dd/mm/yyyy works, but for archival purposes and looking up stuff in the past, mm/dd/yyyy works better, imo. Like when you need to go through a physical file cabinet, or an electronic database.
Or you're the type of person who's zoned out all the time and don't even know what month it is until you look at a clock or calendar.
for archival purposes yyyymmdd is best. that way you can just sort lexicographically and it'll also be sorted chronologically
08AUG2023 is about as unambiguous as it gets.
Except it doesn't sort well in any fashion and it requires two different types of contexts to interpret. It's easier to screw up the order of a month by name than it is to screw up the order of a number. Not saying we should play to least common denominator, but we should be making it as easy as possible. I'd prefer sorting speed over needing to learn how to interpret the date correctly if every single date is stored the same way.
I just dont see why the hell you would switch? dd/mm works fibe in all situations and has some advantages sometimes, while mm/dd is fine sometimes, but generally worse or equal.
MM/DD/YY Anything else is wrong
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