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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Until microsoft makes that the default down in the lower right corner, I don't think we'll make much headway. I've been trying to get my office to do their dated files in YYYYMMDDHHMM for years. I do mine that way but I can't get anybody else to comply. This meme lists that as a discouraged format, I guess the dashes are ISO but I don't care about the dashes. I would accept doing YYYY-MM-DD over MMDDYYYY any time though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

The dashes make it far easier for regular humans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

ISO 8601 recommends inserting a T between the calendar date portion and the time of day portion. So: 20250501T2210+00.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

The Microsoft thing is entirely regional. It's not that Microsoft does dates a certain way, it's your regional defaults. I live in a country that does dates the ISO and the computer displays them thay way.


Someone once told me that american date format follows the same pattern as regular speech. Like "26th of April, 2004. It made some sense to me, but that still feels a silly reason to discard just the sorting benefits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

All my coworkers now know that’s how dates work… I send out all of the reports and they can tear YYYYMMDD out of my arthritis-ridden hands