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[-] [email protected] 254 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 94 points 11 months ago

This.

I can handle DDMMYY[YY] it reads correctly. But YYYYMMDD is numerically correct, most signifcant to least significant digitwise.

That thing only American's do, is completely non-sensical.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

For sorting or filing, I agree. I think in day to day life, though, Day and month are way more significant. So I actually prefer DDMMYYYY for that.

[-] tillary 22 points 11 months ago

DDMMYYYY would be great, if it weren't for 95% of Americans that use MMDDYYYY. Is 07/02/2000 July 2nd or Feb 7th?

Thus the only solution is to write out the month or start with the year, because no logical group of people currently use YYYYDDMM. Plus by using YYYYMMDD you get the added benefit of the dates all being sortable using dumber applications.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I absolutely loath the American favorite: 8/9. Like fuck, is that August 9th, September 8th, or just a fraction??

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

8601 for life

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I expected to see this when I looked at the comments, and you didn't disappoint me!

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[-] [email protected] 152 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

/c/iso8601 assemble !

[-] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

It's the only one that makes any logical sense!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Absolutely! Everything else needs special algos for organization to put it in the proper order. This format just works numerically out of the box.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

ISO-8601. God's own date-time format

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

The overlap of iso-8601 and rfc-3339 is God's own, the regions outside are lower.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

This person sorts

[-] newIdentity 142 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Thaaaank you

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Hungarians feeling superior with their YYYY.MM.DD fornat.

Although that's not ideal for URLs

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[-] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago

Use hyphens instead of slashes and we're on the same page.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Even better, easier sorting.

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[-] gusVLZ 51 points 11 months ago

yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win

[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

I like DDMMYY but for some reason when I include the time as ss:mm:hh nobody shows up to the event on time.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Tired: ISO date format

Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch

Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

It's because people keep taking screenshots of the image and sharing the screenshot instead of the original image file. It's like making a copy of a copy of a copy until it looks like garbage.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

As usual, there's an xkcd for that. Along with a more detailed explanation.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I'd have to say April 25th because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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
[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

The first one you listed is an ISO standard date format, and is the only way to go :)

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

To eliminate this confusion I propose the days of the month should start from 13.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

yall trippin, it should be MMYYDD

[-] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago

Look at this moron. DY-MY-DM is the only logical date format.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Unix timestamp for me thanks.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Date aside, what's going on with that " blank character " bullshit in the " question " ?

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