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Professionals have standards! Community for all proponents, defenders and junkies of the Metric (International) system, the ISO standards (including ISO 8601) and other ways of standardization or regulation!

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Wow! It actually makes sense! (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by CodaChroma@lemmy.world to c/standardization@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] two_wheel2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year 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)

[–] Boreal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 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

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Thi is the way.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] mattaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

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