DeadMartyr comments on Japan is on its own wavelength.

[–] DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 100 points 2 years ago (6 children)

YYYY-MM-DD (honestly without dashes) is the only helpful format.

If you name all your files with this as a suffix then your files automatically sort versions of themselves in order when sorting by name.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago

ISO 8601 baby

Though it ought to be a prefix, not a suffix

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[–] numanair@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You mean as a prefix, right?

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[–] Shayreelz@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Their assumption is that the filename is the same otherwise e.g. myNotes20231122.txt

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[–] numanair@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Oh I see, thanks. Good alternative to final3_release2.

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[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago

Came here to say this, I use DD.MM.YY in day-to-day stuff, but for files it's either YYYY_MM_DD or YY_MM_DD, the automatic ordering is beautiful

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[–] PilferJynx@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah this method is superior for digital filing. I can't imagine the sorting clusters I'd have to go through to find what I want any other way

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