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[-] [email protected] 100 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

ISO 8601 baby

Though it ought to be a prefix, not a suffix

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Oh I see, thanks. Good alternative to final3_release2.

[-] [email protected] 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

[-] [email protected] 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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