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Going day to day, dd/mm/yyyy works, but for archival purposes and looking up stuff in the past, mm/dd/yyyy works better, imo. Like when you need to go through a physical file cabinet, or an electronic database.
Or you’re the type of person who’s zoned out all the time and don’t even know what month it is until you look at a clock or calendar.
08AUG2023 is about as unambiguous as it gets.
Except it doesn’t sort well in any fashion and it requires two different types of contexts to interpret. It’s easier to screw up the order of a month by name than it is to screw up the order of a number. Not saying we should play to least common denominator, but we should be making it as easy as possible. I’d prefer sorting speed over needing to learn how to interpret the date correctly if every single date is stored the same way.
I just dont see why the hell you would switch? dd/mm works fibe in all situations and has some advantages sometimes, while mm/dd is fine sometimes, but generally worse or equal.
for archival purposes yyyymmdd is best. that way you can just sort lexicographically and it’ll also be sorted chronologically
my best idea is a give my gf a white claw and she isn’t mean to me
This rarely works, btw
yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win
Unix timestamp for me thanks.
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Time did not exist before this date
Date aside, what’s going on with that " blank character " bullshit in the " question " ?
Personally I prefer TWENTYTWO–ELEVEN–TWOTHOUSANDTWENTYTHREE–ELEVEN:FIFTYSIX–ANTEMERIDIAN
@675 is the best!
Wow, TIL. Whenever I’m down on my life’s accomplishments, I’ll just remember that this tried to happen.
One might ponder: is it better to be forgotten or be forever remembered for attempting something silly?
I used to have a Swatch watch some 20 years ago that displayed internet time. It was such a cool (and nerdy) idea 🤓
01JAN23 is the only sensible way.
So if you communicate with someone you will specify the date in the year 2023 september 23rd we shall meet and not 23rd of september 🧐
That is not the point. When you print/document something, use ISO. In everday cases, it won’t matter much.
Beautiful
8601 for life
That one for file sorting, the one in the pic for everything else.
Sorry, in Linux everything is a file, so there is no “everything else.”
Life extends beyond Linux, though. I was speaking in general terms.
No, YYYY-MM-DD is fine for real life. Just drop the year when it doesn’t matter. Billions of people use this format.
This.
I can handle DDMMYY[YY] it reads correctly. But YYYYMMDD is numerically correct, most signifcant to least significant digitwise.
That thing only American’s do, is completely non-sensical.
I absolutely loath the American favorite: 8/9. Like fuck, is that August 9th, September 8th, or just a fraction??
It is sensical for one use:
“So when is the event?”
“May 20th, 2024”It’s such a niche use, though
I know you’ve been bashed already by others, but could you elaborate on why this is sensical?
In a, “Alright I guess that technically works and at least can follow the logic”. It’s pretty damn niche, however (who is going to ask for two or more years in advanced for a date and not go, “Just text/email it”? Heck, even this is pushing it, but I can at least follow the logic)
Could be that I’m slightly fucking up definitions in my head, it was a long day yesterday
In what way is it sensible?
I get that you prefer saying it like that, just because you’re used to it. It is conventional but definitely in no way sensible.
In that it at least has a use that one can go, “Alright I guess that technically works”
You mean the 20th of May?
20th in 5th in the year of our lord 2023
Americans always put the month first.
E.g. July 4th.Except when we don’t, like 4th of July…
I think that’s because you’re used to hearing dates said that way? Over here in DDMMYY-land, we often would say “20th of May, 2024” and that sounds equally sensical to me tbh
And in a lot of countries they just say 20 May, 2024. So no ordinal numbers for the day.
For sorting or filing, I agree. I think in day to day life, though, Day and month are way more significant. So I actually prefer DDMMYYYY for that.
DDMMYYYY would be great, if it weren’t for 95% of Americans that use MMDDYYYY. Is 07/02/2000 July 2nd or Feb 7th?
Thus the only solution is to write out the month or start with the year, because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM. Plus by using YYYYMMDD you get the added benefit of the dates all being sortable using dumber applications.
It’s because that’s how we talk. We say October 5th, not the 5th of October.
English people say October 5th. Spanish people say 5 de Octubre. Same for other languages. That’s probably why Europeans prefer the other format.
Yeah I was talking about Americans specifically
because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM
You are saying it like if MMDDYYYY made any sense. To someone who uses MMDDYYYY daily, they could think of YYYYMMDD as “Its like the usual but backwards” and now you have a group of people reading it as YYYYDDMM.
You could convince a group of people to use YYYYDDMM, but what I mean is nobody currently uses it. So at this moment of time YYYYMMDD is intuitive, and has a miniscule chance of being mixed up like DDMMYYYY and MMDDYYYY (because a large number of people use these formats).
Please don’t convince Americans to use YYYYDDMM lol. :-)
Makes sense, I just mostly interact with Europeans, so I don’t encounter this problem a lot. I really don’t have a problem with YYYYMMDD though anyway.
I still prefer yyyymmdd for day to day. If year is irrelevant just skip it. If you only use a date format you get used to it and it becomes the most efficient one due to consistency. Sidenote, in my language the default date format is actually yyyymmdd.
Dd MMM YYYY
I expected to see this when I looked at the comments, and you didn’t disappoint me!
So glad this is the default in Japan. 🇯🇵 😌
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I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.
As usual, there’s an xkcd for that. Along with a more detailed explanation.
because they get downloaded from say reddit and then reuploaded again a year later or so which since most sites/services compress files uploaded they get worse and worse quality
It’s the modern version of the VHS or cassette tape.
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.
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
But what about why 10k, the horrors
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.
Easiest is dd/mmm/yyyy. Use it for literally everything. Doesn’t work great on the computer but well enough.
mmm?
I think they either made a typo, or they meant like “Jan” “Feb” “Mar” etc.
08.008.2028
Covid year was about 120 months long instead of 12 so yea
It’s the standatized way to write the months in three letters. So Jan, Feb etc…
Jan,Feb,Mar etc.
