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Happy Pi Day!! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] deranger 29 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Despite living in the US my whole life, I don't subscribe to the insane mm/dd/yy ordering, it's the most ass backwards shit. That's why I wrote 22 July. Not sure how you got 22nd month out of that when it's unambiguous.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Data Analyst background here. I prefer 20250722

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

digital artist here. i prefer 2025-07-22 for file sorting and it is easier to read

[–] Fillicia 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Technical drafter here,. Agree with you, ISO 8601 is the only right way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

On this day 20250315, after many years of searching, I have finally found my people. The logical ones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

That is the mandate for all date structures that I can control.

[–] Trollception 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The heck? So are you like a rebel without a cause in the office then?

[–] deranger 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I write all my dates in military format i.e. dd MMM yyyy, so 16 MAR 2025 for today. Zero ambiguity. I also use 24H time from being in the military and living in Italy for a couple years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hello! I don't intend to convince anyone one way is better than another, but I wanted to share why I like the mm/dd/yy format.

Simple reason, the number of possible integers increases as you go left to right.
12/31/9999

That's all, got it out of my system. Thank you for reading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That is pretty nice but it does not justify the inconvenience. Glad to have heard it :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

It was a joke.

[–] dream_weasel 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That part was unambiguous, and the month comment was clearly a joke; however, the very next line you write "22/7". While you meant division, you accidentally wrote common date separator format, which WAS ambiguous and opened the door for the joke.

You could have written 22 ➗ 7 to get the effect you were aiming for ;).