1042
Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
254 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 553 points 2 years ago (54 children)

YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 54 child comments
    •
  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    ISO 8601, while great, has too many formats. May I introduce RFC 3339 instead?

    https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    YES! I wish more people knew about RFC 3339. While I'm all for ISO 1601, it's a bit too loose in its requirements at times, and people often end up surprised that it's just not the format they picked...

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Huh, I've never noticed how much bloat was in ISO 8601. I think when most people refer to it, we're specifically referring to the date (optionally with time) format that is shared with RFC 3339, namely 2023-11-22T20:00:18-05:00 (etc). And perhaps some fuzziness for what separates date and time.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    If you have years of files named similarly with the date, you will love the ISO standard and how it keeps things sorted and easy to read.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
    •
  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    I have autohotkey configured to insert the current date in ISO 8601 format into my filenames on keyboard shortcut for just this reason. So organized. So pure.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Holy shit teach me your ways how do I do that

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Download Autohotkey, and create a new script. Paste these shortcuts into the script and restart the script:

    #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.

    ; #Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.

    SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.

    SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

    :R*?:ddd::

    FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyy-MM-dd

    SendInput %CurrentDateTime%

    return

    :R*?:dtt::

    FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyMMddHHmm

    SendInput %CurrentDateTime%

    Return

    Now, if you type 'ddd' on your keyboard, the current date will be typed out, eg '2023-11-23'.

    If you type 'dtt' tgen the datetime stamp will be typed out in YYMMDDhhmm format, eg 2311231012

    There are so many cool things you van do with AHK to make your work more productive. For example, rather tgan typing your email address a billion times, add the shortcut:

    ::add1::your.email.address@domainname.com

    And then you can type 'add1' and hit space, and your email address will be typed out in full. Of course, the string 'add1' can be whatever you want.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    Glad I can count my own country, Lithuania, among the enlightened.

    EDIT: Source of the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Date_format_by_country_NEW.svg

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Which color is which?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    (This doesn't consider the separator) Cyan - DD/MM/YY Magenta - MM/DD/YY Yellow - YY/MM/DD The other ones are mixes of those two colors, so e.g. the US is MM/DD/YY and YY/MM/DD (apparently).

    Also just noticed I didn't attribute this picture, I'll edit my comment.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Canada threw up their hands and said, "Fuck it, I don't care, use whatever date format you like."

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    We are ridiculously inconsistent in Canada. I've seen all 3 of the most popular formats here (2023-11-22, 11/22/2023, and 22/11/2023) in similarish amounts. Government forms seem to be increasingly using RFC 3339 dates, but even they aren't entirely onboard.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • load more comments (5 replies)
  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Funny thing, in ISO 8601 date isn't separated by colon. The format is "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+hh:mm". Date is separated by "-", time is separated by ":", date and time are separated by "T" (which is the bit that a lot of people miss). Time zone indicator can also be just "Z" for UTC. Many of these can be omitted if dealing with lesser precision (e.g. HH:MM is a valid timestamp, YYYY-MM is a valid datestamp if referring to just a month). (OK so apparently if you really want to split hairs, timestamps are supposed to be THH:MM etc. Now that's a thing I've never seen anyone use.) Separators can also be omitted though that's apparently not recommended if quick human legibility is of concern. There's also YYYY-Wxx for week numbers.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This, but all run together.

    I write files/reports to disk a lot from scripts, so that's my preferred format.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I just go for a unix timestamp and use terminal/filemanager to sort by or display the datetime

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Except the information is given least to most important, making verbal abbreviation difficult. Works great for file names though.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    There's this really cool shorthand where you drop the year because it seldom changes. It's called MM-DD

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Yeah and if you need to know what year, you can just add it to the end like this MM-DD-YY.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    "I can reuse this old function if I just monkey-patch this other class to work with it, no one will have any issues understanding what's going on"

    Edit: Thought this was the programmerhumor community. For context: A monkey-patch is when you write code that changes the behaviour of some completely different code when it is running, thus making its inner workings completely incomprehensible to the poor programmer using or reading your code.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    For file names, absolutely.
    When I’m asking what date it is I typically know the current year.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Is that why the military uses that format?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •