YYYY-MM-DD everything else is wrong.
For file versioning, this is the way. So when you sort your files by name, your files sort chronologically.
Not only that. Processing logs with DD/MM/YYYY in many systems will result in octal base error because of the leading 0 in dates such as 07 08 09, and don’t let me talk about how some languages read the back slash / … pukes in shell
It’s also the most relevant information first. I don’t care about what day it is if I don’t know what month it’s in. If it’s an unambiguous context they can just be omitted.
TIL that I am a member of a gang.
The ISO 8601 gang.
Let’s add more granularity, like hours and minutes:
MM:HH DD/MM/YYYY
wait…
Little-endian number formats are the only way to go in the year 4202.
It’s handy when sorting our data by month and retaining the daily as well. The end.
Meh. DD.MM.YYYY
Meh. (D)D.(M)M.YY
I do DD.MM.YY
I don’t like the leading zeros
Back in the 2000’s it was way more confusing. Is appointment is on 10/09/11, when the hell is that?
Best date was 11.11.11
There was a loud countdown to 11:11:11 o’clock, the teacher was powerless
Wow. I can imagine.
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Always write largest to smallest. That way it can be sorted easily starting with the year, then month, then day.
Largest to smallest? So should I write December 02, 2024 as 2024/12/02? And then February 12, 2024 as 2024/12/02?
/s
Unironically yes, because it makes it easy to sort by date.
When you sort by name, the year will get sorted first, then the month, then the day. So it’ll sort like this:
2021-05-19
2021-07-23
2023–06-20Notice that everything is sorted chronologically. But if you do MM-DD-YYYY then you get this instead:
05-19-2021
06-20-2023
07-23-2021Notice that the 2023 date is between the two 2021 dates. This is even worse if you do DD-MM-YYYY, because now the first number is changing constantly. It may not be a problem with only three dates, but imagine a spreadsheet with 2000+ entries, or a folder with dozens of files archived by date, to allow for potential rollbacks, versioning, etc…
There’s a reason ISO standards for timestamps list things big to small: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss in that specific order every time.
You misread. The second part sorts 12 before Feb because 12 > 02, making both dates identical.
We should all just write it in ISO 8601
What if I want to easily sort the day or month?
Or as computer people say, big-endian.
Computer ponies say it too
I bet you write your time as ss:mm:hh you silly little guy, you small to large clown you. Break up with him babe, you can do better
D/Y/M/D/Y/M/Y/Y
2/2/0/3/0/1/2/4 <- Today’s date in this obnoxious format
Pure beauty.
looks better when you remove the slashes
Curious why you didn’t go for
DYMYDYMY.2/2/0/0/4/2/1/4
Thank you for illustrating my point. Much better.
dump him
Is that Kirk?
Yep; William Shatner.
Bill Shats. Master and Commander of the Deathstar Galactica.
Imagine not using milliseconds since Jan 1 1970 GMT
The 32-bit computers will have no idea what to do once they reach 19 January 2038. They’ll have reached their integer limit by that point.
I write my dates in the order I say it.
Do you write half past eight as 30:8 too? ^^
The “past” is a physical direction, so it should use arrows 8 --> 30.
In the UK it’d be ½ 8, or just 4
Only on 01-02-2023
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