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[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 222 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YYYY-MM-DD everything else is wrong.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 17 points 1 year 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 204 points 1 year ago (7 children)

sniff sniff

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

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 162 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year 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.

Gotta have that good sorting

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] JPJones@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

You're god damn right

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago
[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, brother!

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] melooone@feddit.de 23 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Either is preferable to the abomination in the meme.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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").

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's great when organizing something in a database. You can just do A to Z ordering and it works just fine.

However visually it's not very good because it puts the least important piece of information first and the most important piece of information last. I probably know the current year so it doesn't need to be that prominent, and I'm fairly certain that it's going to be sometime this millennium, so I don't need the date to four digits.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's entirely depend on the time frame range of your data. If it's wide it rapidly becomes useful to see the year first. In general I like to put 'larger' group variables in tables from left to right, helps in a similar way.

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[–] mathematicalMagpie@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or as computer people say, big-endian.

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

We should all just write it in ISO 8601

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[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 25 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Pure beauty.

[–] example@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

looks better when you remove the slashes

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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BoisZoi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Bill Shats. Master and Commander of the Deathstar Galactica.

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

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

MM:HH DD/MM/YYYY

wait...

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] jessca@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[–] venoft@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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?

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

JD/YYYY (Julian Date/Year)

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fuck you JD Edwards for making me think about leap years

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Logical? So if we use the same logic for money, that big mac will be $17.5

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