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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ISO-8601 over all other formats. 2023-08-09T21:11:00Z

Simple, sortable, intuitive.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Awful to actually read, though. Using T as a delimiter is mental... At least the hyphen provides some white space

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are you splitting and delimiting a date object? Convert it to a shallower object if that's what you need

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

While you are definitely right, I and many others use yyyy-mm-dd outside of software. And that's when the T becomes super lame.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly, even a lowercase t.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Using T as a delimiter is mental

You get used to it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good luck using colons in a filename.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Linux has been able to handle that since the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tough luck if you are using NTFS file system. All my homies use EXT4.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean yes, but I haven't used any of those yet, so I can't fully agree.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Too long. Even 2023-08-09 is too long for me. But since I like the readability I use 2023.08.09. Less pixels and more readable then 20230809.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Although I actually like that format a lot, we use characters to help elicit context. 2023/08/09 is fine since we have been using / for dates for so long. Also it blows my mind why people don’t use : in 24 hour times. 16:40 is great, no am pm bullshit and you immediately know I’m talking time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same number of pixels, they are just different colours. But you still paid for them.