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Can't believe he missed the opportunity to add 41332 to the number of ways of how not to write dates.
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ISO-8601 over all other formats. 2023-08-09T21:11:00Z
Simple, sortable, intuitive.
Good luck using colons in a filename.
Linux has been able to handle that since the 90s.
Tough luck if you are using NTFS file system. All my homies use EXT4.
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Christ, do this many people really find iso8601 hard to read? It’s the date and the time with a T in the middle.
I think it's fair that programmatic and human readable can be different. If someone is putting in the month word for a logging system they can fuck right off though
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I really wonder how americans were able to fuck this one up. There are three ways to arrange these and two of them are acceptable!
Edit: Yes, I meant common ways, not combinatorically possible ways.
Hmmm more like 6 ways but I get your point
Twelve ways if you count two-digit years. My nephew was born on 12/12/12 which was convenient.
this guy does combinatorics
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There are two ways of writting dates: the "yyyy-mm-dd" one and the wrong one
ISO 8601 ftw. Here's the date, time, and duration for our next meeting:
2023-08-10T20:00:00PT2H30M
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better than the absolutely deranged MM/DD/YYYY and imo the best when it comes to international communication
I've been told " You don't say 6th June, do you?" too many times
The amusing thing is that in Swedish you definitely do. Or actually "6:e juni".
Germany too
I enforce ISO 8601 for the shared storage in my office. Before I got there, files were kinda stored in all kinds of formats, but mostly month first.
I tell the person under me she can store her files in her user any way she wants, but if it goes into shared storage, it's ISO 8601. I even have a folder in there called !Date format: YYYY-MM-DD Description to help anyone else remember.
Haha I did the same.
It was the Wild West, no standard, everyone used their own date format all in the same shared storage.
I've got most of the office doing it correctly now
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YYYY-MM-DD for everything. My PC clock, my phone and even my handwritten notes all use that format.
The only other acceptable format is military notation: DD MMM YYYY.
Leave them hyphens out though, 20230809
Who hurt you that bad, my friend?
Excuse me?! ISO 8601 >> *
ISO dates are the goat because they string compare correctly. Just yesterday I shaved 2 full seconds off a page transition by removing a date parse in the middle of a hot sorting loop. Everything should use ISO in my opinion.
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I like yyyy-mm-dd and dd/mm/yyyy
To the commenters justifying the written form MM-DD-YYYY on the basis of preferring to say the name of the month followed by the day (which the written numerical sequence does not preclude you from doing). If someone were to say something like "the time is a quarter to eleven" do you think they would have a case for writing it 45:10? And if so, how would you deal with the ambiguity of "ten past ten" if they wrote it 10:10 instead of 10:10?
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I have a watch that uses MM/DD for date, which pissed me off to no end. While looking for a way to change it to DD/MM, I found out that they actually used ISO-8601 and dropped the year. Now I don't know how to feel about it.
If they dropped the year it's no longer an ISO date.
Use YYYY-DD-MM for pure chaos.
Tab completion approves of this naming scheme.
Unix epoch for life! 😂
Year-Month-Day best everywhere
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