ISO 8601 or bust.
8601 for life
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. 🇯🇵 😌
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.
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 🧐
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Beautiful
It’s the only one that makes any logical sense!
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Absolutely! Everything else needs special algos for organization to put it in the proper order. This format just works numerically out of the box.
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
This person sorts
YYYY-MM-DD
Thaaaank you
Hungarians feeling superior with their YYYY.MM.DD fornat.
Although that’s not ideal for URLs
I believe this is still valid according to ISO 8601 so have an upvote. It also works fine in URLs after the host part.
If I had a forint for something matching order in Hungary and Japan, I would have 2 forints, which isn’t a lot but its weird it happened twice. (Its the order of names and dates)
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.
And programmers tend to go: “I don’t need to comment my code, I know what it does” 😂
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.
The most important part is the year.
Why? The year changes least quickly, (especially the decade) so you can often infer without needing it.
The same reason “one thousand” is written 1000 and not 0001
Because that’s the way it’s said? Dates are spoken day month year. Because you go more specific to more general.
Depends on where you live
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?
I tried reading your comment right to left and was left even more confused.
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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?
Now that I think of it, this may actually be a pretty nice system to store files hierarchically by date.
It’s definitely something you can do when the year is in the most-significant-digits place in the order and the day-of-the-month is in the least-significant place.
Nobody puts Baby in a tertiary folder!
Works , but MMDDYY ugh
yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win
Tired: ISO date format
Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch
Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang
Impractical waste of computing power and information storage
Not if you encode it using an exponent. One Planck time unit is roughly 1.8 x 10-43 seconds, so with an exponent of 2128 (roughly 3.4 x 1038) you could write a second as 54510 x 2128 TP
Another fun fact, 2128+32 Planck time units are about 21 hours
Also almost killed all computing in y2k
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 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.
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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.
As usual, there’s an xkcd for that. Along with a more detailed explanation.
yall trippin, it should be MMYYDD
Look at this moron. DY-MY-DM is the only logical date format.
This is some enigma date code shit… nearly broke my head trying to work out my birthday
Edit: fuck I see why my birthday wasn’t making sense now, you have the same digit of day and year
https://xkcd.com/1179/
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next gen American:
It think people didn’t get the joke
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
But what about why 10k, the horrors
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.
@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 🤓
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Never visit Europe then.
In Sweden we tend to use iso, except sometimes on “Best before” dates. It’s always fun trying to figure out if your food is going bad by, for instance, the 10th of August or the 8th of October…
I don’t like it, but at least the numbers are ordered by specificity. MM/DD/YYYY is a big red flag.
To eliminate this confusion I propose the days of the month should start from 13.
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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.
