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[-] dEVbiKub@feddit.nu 11 points 1 hour ago

That's a red flag... He has obviously not received the xkcd PSA.

[-] GarboDog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

We grew up on MM/DD/YYYY but all our computer stuff is YYYY/MM/DD however now that we live in EU we use DD/MM/YYYY and still YYYY/MM/DD for files in pc

[-] msage@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago

Every fucking time they make him look like a tool.

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

He formats dates, how else would he look like?

[-] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 78 points 8 hours ago
[-] lietuva@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Lithuania, Hungary, Japan represent

[-] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Tik gryžtu ir randu Lietuva.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 hours ago

Being able to sort numerically and have it also be in chronological order is sooo cool.

[-] darkmogool@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

yep… this or dd.mm.yyyy (for texts)

[-] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago
[-] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 hours ago

Please use any kind of separation character or I'm gonna lose my mind

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 hours ago

Best I can give you is a single "_"

[-] Mavenbushlog@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

202609041006_15

[-] Xyphius@lemmy.ca 20 points 10 hours ago

I feel like DD/MM/YYYY is the same as doing: ss:mm:HH and I find that confusing.

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I see the duality in this but I still think both are valid. When telling the time, there's usually no point in including the seconds since they'll have changed before you finish saying the whole thing anyway. In spoken word IMO it makes sense to go from more specific to less specific, and even not include extra parts sometimes (e. g. "today is the 3rd" when it's expected to know the month and, well, year from context, or "it's half past" to someone whom you've told the time a couple of minutes ago).

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[-] red_tomato@lemmy.world 275 points 15 hours ago
[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 50 points 12 hours ago

As for why it's better:

  1. It's in sort order. Even if you use it for things that don't understand dates, they sort properly because the day is the last part, month is the middle part, and year is the first part. If you include hours, minutes or seconds, the sort order is still preserved.
  2. Speaking of things that don't understand dates, because there are no slashes, you can easily use it in file names, directories, and anything else that treats slash as a special character. In addition, if you include the time part, because it uses "T" to separate the date and time, it doesn't use a space, so once again it can be easily used anywhere where a space might cause issues.
[-] Rothe@piefed.social 6 points 3 hours ago

ISO is better for archiving and sorting, inarguably so. But dd-mm-yyyy is better for day to day daily life usage, where the day and month are much more important than the year.

Both have their uses, but for different situations. mm-dd-yyyy is just batshit though.

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[-] 7EP6vuI@feddit.org 172 points 15 hours ago
[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

RFC 3339 FTW!

Open source, and no ambiguous options grandfathered in.

[-] Nonononoki@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Are a lots of things gonna break in about 8000 years?

[-] plasma8726@lemmy.today 9 points 10 hours ago

This is the only way to date.

[-] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

No need for dashes

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[-] M137@lemmy.today 16 points 11 hours ago

ITT: people saying one thing is better than any other without thinking of context.
If I want to know today's date ISO 8601 isn't a good answer. And if I put stuff in folders by date then DD-MM-YYYY is a real bad way to do it. But MM-DD-YYYY is the worst one no matter the context.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I became an evangelist for YYYY-MM-DD format once I had to deal with a legal battle that had multiple years of documentary evidence. I sorely regretted my choice of naming files when I had to wade through a heckton of upsetting reminders. It got a lot easier when I renamed everything according to YYYY-MM-DD (and the lawyers probably appreciated it too)

[-] KernelTale@programming.dev 26 points 10 hours ago

I like YYYY-MM-DD because then I don't have to figure out half the time if they used MM-DD-YYYY or if they were sane.

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[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 4 hours ago

"confusing" you're dumb and/or likely being obtuse

"Dumb" or "it's bad" is fine.

But being confused by stuff you just disagree with has to stop

[-] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago

Your complaints are confusing.

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 69 points 15 hours ago

I read this meme and was physically revolted and wanted to immediately down vote. Great job.

The superior date format is, of course, ISO 8601. YYYY-MM-DD.

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[-] drath@lemmy.drath.ru 14 points 12 hours ago

Months are stupid anyway, lets drop them and swap for what they were supposed to represent instead: the moon phase, so today would be 216-2026-Waning Gibbous

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[-] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

That or the reverse.

[-] gex@lemmy.world 61 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

yyyy/mm/dd, it's less ambiguous and it sorts nicely

Edit: so many replies suggesting using a hyphen as a separator, I'd like to compromise by using the oblique angle sign (⦧) which looks like a slash that becomes a hyphen in the middle. yyyy⦧mm⦧dd

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