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[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If the date format is not YYYY-MM-DD it can fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ISO 8601. Unironically the only ISO number I also remember.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Long live I-SO! I-SO! I-SO!

[–] mattaw 3 points 2 years ago

I also remember as PHP programming language still won't do it with this function: DateTimeInterface::ISO8601 DATE_ISO8601 https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php#datetime.constants.iso8601

You need the DateTimeInterface::ISO8601_EXPANDED which can actually accept non compliant strings too.

PHP - wherever you see an intuitive solution it's wrong or has important caveats.

[–] Boreal 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My favorite thing about this date format is using it in file names. Sorting the files by name also sorts them by date.

Meeting notes 2023-06-29.txt Meeting notes 2023-06-30.txt Meeting notes 2023-07-01.txt

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I know that they use that format in daily life in Asia but to me it's the "computer format" for this exact reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thi is the way.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Everything is right about it:

  • Lexographic sort
  • Unambiguous months and days
  • Acceptable on any document of record (lab, legal, medical, personal)
  • Readable by nearly any culture (even us Americans)
[–] kamenoko 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

for storing dates it's awesome, for displaying dates it's time to teach your programmer how to format shit for humans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It actually is the best for displaying all-number dates to people as well because no one in their right mind will ever do yyyy-dd-mm.

So if you see the year first, you know the format. When the year is last and you see a date like 03-02-2023, you have to take into account the nationality of the author to know if it's March 2nd or February 3rd.

But 2023-02-03 it becomes clear that it's February 3rd.