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ISO-8601. God’s own date-time format
The overlap of iso-8601 and rfc-3339 is God’s own, the regions outside are lower.
I feel like I should frame this graphic. It’s beautiful
Absolutely! Everything else needs special algos for organization to put it in the proper order. This format just works numerically out of the box.
This person sorts
YYYY-MM-DD
Thaaaank you
Hungarians feeling superior with their YYYY.MM.DD fornat.
Although that’s not ideal for URLs
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.
But we read left to right and the most important part is furthest right hardest to read. It’s convenient for computers sorting alphabetically, but bad for people reading it.
I tried reading your comment right to left and was left even more confused.
now fixed sorry
The most important part is the year.
Why? The year changes least quickly, (especially the decade) so you can often infer without needing it.
Because it’s the most significant. If it’s wrong or missing you’re off by much more than if the day or month is wrong.
But that’s good, like a parity check. Because your wrong by much more, it’s easier to tell from context clues. That’s why people abbreviated the year to ‘in 98’ or something like that.
Okay, hear me out.
With other numbers, non-date numbers, we put the numbers representing the most quantity to the left, and numbers representing the last quantity to the right, eg 1 hundred, ten and 1 would be 111, where the number representing 100 qty comes first from the left, and each position moving to the right, represents a smaller and smaller amount.
Since years are longer than months, which are longer than days, the YYYY-MM-DD format actually follows the same convention that we commonly use for all other numbering systems, big on the left, small on the right.
So why would the date be the exception?
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yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win
What about YYYY/MM/DD?
Use hyphens instead of slashes and we’re on the same page.
Even better, easier sorting.
Yeah, that’s the one you use for filenames. Backup images and the likes.
Why would you put the day in a secondary sub-folder?
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.
Stop right there criminal scum, you are not allow to publish original copyrighted works, you are stealing from the artist’s mouth by squandering his market value !
So that’s why normal people screenshot.
As usual, there’s an xkcd for that. Along with a more detailed explanation.
I like DDMMYY but for some reason when I include the time as ss:mm:hh nobody shows up to the event on time.
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 :)
if i write a date on paper i tend to go with 2, but yes
I dunno. If the date is between 2001 and 2012, I prefer YY/DD/MM. So August 4th, 2005 would be 05/04/08.
Some men just like to watch the world burn.
But what about why 10k, the horrors
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
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.
Unix timestamp for me thanks.
I only understand time in reference to Jan 1, 1970.
Time did not exist before this date
my best idea is a give my gf a white claw and she isn’t mean to me
This rarely works, btw
Easiest is dd/mmm/yyyy. Use it for literally everything. Doesn’t work great on the computer but well enough.
mmm?
08.008.2028
Covid year was about 120 months long instead of 12 so yea
Jan,Feb,Mar etc.
It’s the standatized way to write the months in three letters. So Jan, Feb etc…
I think they either made a typo, or they meant like “Jan” “Feb” “Mar” etc.
ISO 8601 or bust.
Tired: ISO date format
Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch
Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang
