@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 19 days agoA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldimagemessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1724
arrow-up1724imageA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.world@[email protected] to Lemmy [email protected] • 19 days agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•17 days agoRTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)linkfedilinkEnglish0•16 days agoBut if you type it as “[RTL invert]yyyy/mm/dd” it is automatically sorted correctly in ltr parsing systems but still displayed correctly (assuming it is supported which it seems to be on most devices nowadays).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•16 days agoYou want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)linkfedilinkEnglish1•16 days agoAh, I read the original comment backwards.
RTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
But if you type it as “[RTL invert]yyyy/mm/dd” it is automatically sorted correctly in ltr parsing systems but still displayed correctly (assuming it is supported which it seems to be on most devices nowadays).
You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
Ah, I read the original comment backwards.