Who cares to touch the grass?
Who cares to touch the grass?
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ISO 8601 or bust.
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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.
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I absolutely loath the American favorite: 8/9. Like fuck, is that August 9th, September 8th, or just a fraction??
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Dd MMM YYYY
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8601 for life
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I expected to see this when I looked at the comments, and you didn't disappoint me!
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So glad this is the default in Japan. 🇯🇵 😌
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Beautiful
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It's the only one that makes any logical sense!
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/c/iso8601 assemble !
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Absolutely! Everything else needs special algos for organization to put it in the proper order. This format just works numerically out of the box.
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This person sorts
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YYYY-MM-DD
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Thaaaank you
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Hungarians feeling superior with their YYYY.MM.DD fornat.
Although that's not ideal for URLs
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I believe this is still valid according to ISO 8601 so have an upvote. It also works fine in URLs after the host part.
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If I had a forint for something matching order in Hungary and Japan, I would have 2 forints, which isn't a lot but its weird it happened twice. (Its the order of names and dates)
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For history, sure, but for day to day stuff I think I can remember what year it is and don't need it right at the front lol
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I use this for notes, and generally everything written; mainly for reference when looking back on old information. Today, whether I say Wednesday the 9th, or 2023-08-09, it's fairly inconsequential, but in 2-3 years if I have to reference a note, email or something else where I said today's date, I won't have to compare the date of the note to the calendar for that time period to see which 9th was on a Wednesday.
Everything you do now becomes history, so adapting to this format makes it easier when today becomes your history.
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And programmers tend to go: "I don't need to comment my code, I know what it does" 😂
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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.
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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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No more comments necessary in this thread.
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What about YYYY/MM/DD?
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Use hyphens instead of slashes and we're on the same page.
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Even better, easier sorting.
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Yeah, that's the one you use for filenames. Backup images and the likes.
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Works , but MMDDYY ugh
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yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win
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I like DDMMYY but for some reason when I include the time as ss:mm:hh nobody shows up to the event on time.
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Tired: ISO date format
Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch
Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang
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I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.
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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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Stop right there criminal scum, you are not allow to publish original copyrighted works, you are stealing from the artist's mouth by squandering his market value !
So that's why normal people screenshot.
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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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It's the modern version of the VHS or cassette tape.
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As usual, there's an xkcd for that. Along with a more detailed explanation.
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I'd have to say April 25th because it's not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
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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
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The first one you listed is an ISO standard date format, and is the only way to go :)
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if i write a date on paper i tend to go with 2, but yes
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But what about why 10k, the horrors
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I dunno. If the date is between 2001 and 2012, I prefer YY/DD/MM. So August 4th, 2005 would be 05/04/08.
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Some men just like to watch the world burn.
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@675 is the best!
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Wow, TIL. Whenever I'm down on my life's accomplishments, I'll just remember that this tried to happen.
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One might ponder: is it better to be forgotten or be forever remembered for attempting something silly?
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I used to have a Swatch watch some 20 years ago that displayed internet time. It was such a cool (and nerdy) idea 🤓
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To eliminate this confusion I propose the days of the month should start from 13.
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I say we force them to be alphabetical.
Anuary Bebuary Carch Dapril
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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.
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yall trippin, it should be MMYYDD
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Look at this moron. DY-MY-DM is the only logical date format.
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This is some enigma date code shit.. nearly broke my head trying to work out my birthday
Edit: fuck I see why my birthday wasn't making sense now, you have the same digit of day and year
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https://xkcd.com/1179/
1691579826
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next gen American:
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It think people didn't get the joke
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Unix timestamp for me thanks.
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I only understand time in reference to Jan 1, 1970.
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Time did not exist before this date
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Date aside, what's going on with that " blank character " bullshit in the " question " ?
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my best idea is a give my gf a white claw and she isn't mean to me
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This rarely works, btw
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01JAN23 is the only sensible way.
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MM/DD/YY Anything else is wrong
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Going day to day, dd/mm/yyyy works, but for archival purposes and looking up stuff in the past, mm/dd/yyyy works better, imo. Like when you need to go through a physical file cabinet, or an electronic database.
Or you're the type of person who's zoned out all the time and don't even know what month it is until you look at a clock or calendar.
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for archival purposes yyyymmdd is best. that way you can just sort lexicographically and it'll also be sorted chronologically
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08AUG2023 is about as unambiguous as it gets.
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Except it doesn't sort well in any fashion and it requires two different types of contexts to interpret. It's easier to screw up the order of a month by name than it is to screw up the order of a number. Not saying we should play to least common denominator, but we should be making it as easy as possible. I'd prefer sorting speed over needing to learn how to interpret the date correctly if every single date is stored the same way.
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I just dont see why the hell you would switch? dd/mm works fibe in all situations and has some advantages sometimes, while mm/dd is fine sometimes, but generally worse or equal.
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