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[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 227 points 9 months ago (1 children)

YYYY-MM-DD everything else is wrong.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For file versioning, this is the way. So when you sort your files by name, your files sort chronologically.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

It's also the most relevant information first. I don't care about what day it is if I don't know what month it's in. If it's an unambiguous context they can just be omitted.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not only that. Processing logs with DD/MM/YYYY in many systems will result in octal base error because of the leading 0 in dates such as 07 08 09, and don't let me talk about how some languages read the back slash / ... pukes in shell

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 206 points 9 months ago (7 children)

sniff sniff

You smell that? They're coming, the ISO 8601 gang.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 168 points 9 months ago (5 children)
[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

Easily proved to be the best: in every time travel story, the time traveler asks for the date. The unsuspecting drone always responds with DD or MM-DD, and the protagonist has to shout at them “NO! WHAT YEAR IS IT?”

Always start with YYYY.

I rest my case.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago

Gotta have that good sorting

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

DD is day in year, I think dd is what you mean. Also, YYYY is week year, so better to use yyyy.

yyyy-MM-dd

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 9 months ago

Anything else is madness. It’s demonstrably the only logical answer.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

YMD is primarily used in:

China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hungary, Mongolia, Lithuania, Bhutan, Sweden

That is one weird country group.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

China and Japan switched from their old calendar system, which was using the start of their current emperor inauguration as the first year, reset with each new emperor.

So I guess it was easier to choose the only correct date format.

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[–] lemmydripzdotz123@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

W E A R E I N E V I T A B L E

[–] JPJones@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

You're god damn right

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 9 months ago
[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Hell yeah, brother!

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 71 points 9 months ago (5 children)
[–] melooone@feddit.de 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I prefer RFC 3339. It allows you to omit the "T" for example. Like this: 1985-04-12 23:20:50Z

[–] sxan@midwest.social 11 points 9 months ago

Either is preferable to the abomination in the meme.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Today is 2024, January 24.

It looks perfect. Although my only concern is if we should use the preposition "in" (since the year comes first: "in 2024") or "on" (because we say "on January 24").

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[–] mathematicalMagpie@lemm.ee 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Always write largest to smallest. That way it can be sorted easily starting with the year, then month, then day.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or as computer people say, big-endian.

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

We should all just write it in ISO 8601

[–] PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Largest to smallest? So should I write December 02, 2024 as 2024/12/02? And then February 12, 2024 as 2024/12/02?

/s

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[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 29 points 9 months ago

I bet you write your time as ss:mm:hh you silly little guy, you small to large clown you. Break up with him babe, you can do better

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 24 points 9 months ago (5 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

2/2/0/3/0/1/2/4 <- Today's date in this obnoxious format

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

Pure beauty.

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Imagine not using milliseconds since Jan 1 1970 GMT

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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] BoisZoi@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 8 points 9 months ago

Bill Shats. Master and Commander of the Deathstar Galactica.

[–] venoft@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Back in the 2000's it was way more confusing. The appointment is on 10/09/11, when the hell is that?

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

11 am on the 10th of '09. Month, millennium, century and month are free to choose by the reader.

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[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let's add more granularity, like hours and minutes:

MM:HH DD/MM/YYYY

wait...

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Little-endian number formats are the only way to go in the year 4202.

[–] jessca@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago
[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

TIL that I am a member of a gang.

The ISO 8601 gang.

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

JD/YYYY (Julian Date/Year)

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Fuck you JD Edwards for making me think about leap years

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