yyyy-mm-dd and confusion no more.
98 0 ReplyThis. On top of being obvious at a glance, your file names and folder names sort nicely if use this format.
43 0 ReplyUntil Y10k rears its ugly head.
14 0 ReplyWhy is no one talking about this??? Ostriches in the sand...
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Good taste,
YYYY-MM-DD
is obviously superior32 0 ReplyI too agree with the woman
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32 2 ReplyDont know if it's true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.
3 0 ReplyMy guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.
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I, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.
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Why do some people insist on doing big-endian dates? Little-endian (YYYY-MM-DD) is trivially alphanumerically sortable. Also, it’s part of the goddamn ISO standard for standardized date format.
14 0 ReplyWhich is why the guy in the comic will "die single".
6 0 ReplyYou've got your endians mixed up. Big-endian means the most significant value comes first. ISO8601 is big-endian.
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The perfect date is YYYY/MM/DD. US and every where else conflict with DD/MM/YYYY & MM/DD/YYYY.
18 5 ReplyPath separators in my date strings? Hell no!
28 0 ReplySanitize your inputs. Become delimiter agnostic!
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9 0 ReplyUnix epoch time. It has a cool name and I get to pretend its a Star Date.
8 0 ReplyAre we on schedule to solve the 2038 problem in time?
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ISO 8601
8 0 Replyyyyy.MM.dd
7 0 Reply09/12_20/30_2024/inf
5 0 Replylol this is so cursed, I love it.
Now include time, with tz offsets
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