ISO-8601 over all other formats. 2023-08-09T21:11:00Z
Simple, sortable, intuitive.
Awful to actually read, though. Using T as a delimiter is mental... At least the hyphen provides some white space
Can't believe he missed the opportunity to add 41332 to the number of ways of how not to write dates.
I recall writing a script that produces that 01237 with smaller digits around it for the current date. It lists the numbers that occur in the date (0, 2, 3 and 9 for 2023-09-09), the smaller digits show at which position they show up in a YYYYMMDD format (the 0 shows up on positions 2, 5 and 7)
The script has not been pushed online cause it was so dang bad
The fact that "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM" displays from set to subset is visually satisfying to me. I use the format everywhere.
Not on paper documents though. Here in Europe I have to write dd-mm-yyyy.
I really wonder how americans were able to fuck this one up. There are three ways to arrange these and two of them are acceptable!
Edit: Yes, I meant common ways, not combinatorically possible ways.
Twelve ways if you count two-digit years. My nephew was born on 12/12/12 which was convenient.
There are two ways of writting dates: the "yyyy-mm-dd" one and the wrong one
better than the absolutely deranged MM/DD/YYYY and imo the best when it comes to international communication
How the fuck does second largest to smallest to largest make any kind of sense?
YYYY-MM-DD for everything. My PC clock, my phone and even my handwritten notes all use that format.
The only other acceptable format is military notation: DD MMM YYYY.
ISO dates are the goat because they string compare correctly. Just yesterday I shaved 2 full seconds off a page transition by removing a date parse in the middle of a hot sorting loop. Everything should use ISO in my opinion.
Maybe we should form some sort of organization, on an international stage, dedicated to creating and maintaining such standards.
I imagine your complaint was referring to a community name in the abstract "/c/iso8601" rather than the proper Lemmy centralized name !lemmy.ml!@/c/iso8601 or whatever the horrible format that it is
My complaint was about the "subreddits as hashtags" thing that people did on Reddit where they'd link a non-existent sub (or one that only contained screenshots of people linking to it) instead of thinking of something original.
Separately, what's wrong with the !iso8601@lemmy.ml format? It's pretty simple to remember and is very much part of the federated way that Lemmy is designed to be used!
Linking communitirs !iso8601!@someinstance is one of the core reasons why Lemmy failed to capture even 1% of 1% of 1% of Reddit's userbase at probably the greatest time of turmoil of discontent with that site for the next 5 years.
This formulation insist on centralizing communities in single instances and creates both fragmentation of the community while also making them concentrated on whatever the biggest one is.
The few users that make it past the registration catastrophe, when they realize this is how communities work, they just leave, because it means Lemmy isn't federated where it counts. Communities end up owned by a single instance owner and mod team. It's Reddit except somehow worse.
10 Aug 2023 is the superior format for handwritten dates, no misinterpretation of the date itself or an improperly written divider.
My 3rd grade teacher always made us write dates in YYYY-MM-DD for some reason.
Go largest to smallest or smallest to largest. Not medium, small, large.
To the commenters justifying the written form MM-DD-YYYY on the basis of preferring to say the name of the month followed by the day (which the written numerical sequence does not preclude you from doing). If someone were to say something like "the time is a quarter to eleven" do you think they would have a case for writing it 45:10? And if so, how would you deal with the ambiguity of "ten past ten" if they wrote it 10:10 instead of 10:10?
