8601 for life
So glad this is the default in Japan. 🇯🇵 😌
I expected to see this when I looked at the comments, and you didn’t disappoint me!
Beautiful
That one for file sorting, the one in the pic for everything else.
Sorry, in Linux everything is a file, so there is no “everything else.”
Life extends beyond Linux, though. I was speaking in general terms.
No, YYYY-MM-DD is fine for real life. Just drop the year when it doesn’t matter. Billions of people use this format.
So if you communicate with someone you will specify the date in the year 2023 september 23rd we shall meet and not 23rd of september 🧐
YYYY-MM-DD
Thaaaank you
But we read left to right and the most important part is furthest right hardest to read. It’s convenient for computers sorting alphabetically, but bad for people reading it.
The most important part is the year.
Why? The year changes least quickly, (especially the decade) so you can often infer without needing it.
The same reason “one thousand” is written 1000 and not 0001
Because that’s the way it’s said? Dates are spoken day month year. Because you go more specific to more general.
Depends on where you live
Because it’s the most significant. If it’s wrong or missing you’re off by much more than if the day or month is wrong.
But that’s good, like a parity check. Because your wrong by much more, it’s easier to tell from context clues. That’s why people abbreviated the year to ‘in 98’ or something like that.
Okay, hear me out.
With other numbers, non-date numbers, we put the numbers representing the most quantity to the left, and numbers representing the last quantity to the right, eg 1 hundred, ten and 1 would be 111, where the number representing 100 qty comes first from the left, and each position moving to the right, represents a smaller and smaller amount.
Since years are longer than months, which are longer than days, the YYYY-MM-DD format actually follows the same convention that we commonly use for all other numbering systems, big on the left, small on the right.
So why would the date be the exception?
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What about YYYY/MM/DD?
Even better, easier sorting.
Yeah, that’s the one you use for filenames. Backup images and the likes.
Works , but MMDDYY ugh
Why would you put the day in a secondary sub-folder?
Now that I think of it, this may actually be a pretty nice system to store files hierarchically by date.
It’s definitely something you can do when the year is in the most-significant-digits place in the order and the day-of-the-month is in the least-significant place.
Nobody puts Baby in a tertiary folder!
yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win
Tired: ISO date format
Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch
Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang
Impractical waste of computing power and information storage
Not if you encode it using an exponent. One Planck time unit is roughly 1.8 x 10-43 seconds, so with an exponent of 2128 (roughly 3.4 x 1038) you could write a second as 54510 x 2128 TP
Another fun fact, 2128+32 Planck time units are about 21 hours
Also almost killed all computing in y2k
I like DDMMYY but for some reason when I include the time as ss:mm:hh nobody shows up to the event on time.
to make things as not confusing as possible, my rule of thumb is:
- yyyy-mm-dd (yyyy instead of yy ensures that it’s not mistaken for dd-mm-yy) (hyphens can be replaced with underscores)
- dd.mm.yyyy (yyyy same as above) (really dislike using for filenames, sorting doesn’t work)
- mm/dd/yyyy (only if there is no other choice) edit: mm/dd/yyyy vs mm/dd/yy doesn’t matter because both make 0 sense already edit2: i forgor to say that yyyy also avoids y2.1k and subsequent issues
The first one you listed is an ISO standard date format, and is the only way to go :)
if i write a date on paper i tend to go with 2, but yes
I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.
because they get downloaded from say reddit and then reuploaded again a year later or so which since most sites/services compress files uploaded they get worse and worse quality
It’s the modern version of the VHS or cassette tape.
I’d have to say April 25th because it’s not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
@675 is the best!
To eliminate this confusion I propose the days of the month should start from 13.
I say we force them to be alphabetical.
Anuary Bebuary Carch Dapril
Do we really even need months? They don’t even line up with the lunar cycle like they pretend to do.
Just give us Year/Day. On leap years we get an extra long New Year holiday.
Unix timestamp for me thanks.
I only understand time in reference to Jan 1, 1970.
Time did not exist before this date
Date aside, what’s going on with that " blank character " bullshit in the " question " ?
my best idea is a give my gf a white claw and she isn’t mean to me
This rarely works, btw
