Best date format is YYYY/MM/DD because it's unambiguous and it sorts alphabetically
Yeah, but the sorting method is more flexible when a person is filing.
Also, in retrospect I think most people file by month and archive by year, which is essentially a yy/mm filing system
No, but adopting different date schema because it makes sorting by name easier for computer seems weird to me. Like if it’s text data, you still have to parse strings, if it’s files, you can just look at created/modified flags.
Maybe I’m having a grumpy boomer moment :cat-confused:
It would be ridiculous if some one wanted to restart the calendar to signify the widespread adoption of computers, but changing the written format for a date seems ok to me.
I do wonder how much of this is opinion is formed from being at the same place and creating a ton of records. mm/dd/yy is starting to drive me nuts.
Fucking up dates is a time honoured tradition of empire.
Nothing will top Augustus inserting a month named after himself right before the months named after their order in the sequence.
Ever wondered why september isn’t number 7? Or why October is the tenth month? Or why December isn’t?
All thanks to Augustus.
I love it, and used to have a printed version on my wall. Today is Frosty Reed day!
Fucking up dates is a time honoured tradition of empire.
Counterpoint: The October revolution was actually in November
And February revolution was in March, because Russian Empire used Julian calendar.
The numbers being off is more on Pope Gregory XIII. Britain still had the new year starting in March up until the 1750s.
YYYY-MM-DD should be the only way, world wide. It sorts properly.
I die a little every time at work when I'm forced to write the date as "12 DEC 2020" (or whatever day it is) instead of using the fucking ISO-8601 standard.
my initial reading is always day/month/year because everywhere else does it that way, but amerikkka does it wrong, so i then have to go back and question if 1/2/21 is in january or february
:stalin-stressed:
oof.
the need to correctly fill out paperwork to recieve subpar healthcare is so fucking absurd.
exactly now I always get confused and have to think about which is more likely. it's a stupid inconvenience for absolutely no reason.
Yes, let us use Metric time
It's 100/47/2020
A glorious day for round uses of base-10
https://i.imgur.com/RSfm7nb.png
Seriously though, seconds elapsed since the UNIX epoch is the only valid timekeeping method
You know what's the really fucked up thing? Windows 10 literally doesn't have the option to do dd/mm/yyyy. The closest thing it gets is this weird dd/mmm/yyyy format.
??? This is literally a screenshot I took from a computer running windows 10. Is it just US distros of it that do that maybe?
it's not the year "2020", it's the year 30958234023489238420359308
I don't get why people hate MM-DD-YYYY. If you ask someone what day it is, they'd say "December 13, 2020". You use MM-DD-YYYY or MM-DD if the year is obvious in conversation, why not in writing too? I feel like Americans got this one right by accident. If you want to shit on American measurement standards just plug the metric system. But display dates make sense imo.
That’s how you say it in English. In French it would be “le treize décembre 2020.” I assume most other Latin languages are the same.
Yeah in Greek it is "13 Δεκεμβρίου 2020", the analogue of which would be "13th of December 2020", but there is no natural way to say it in a MM/DD format.
but...by that logic isn't the month also kinda obvious in most circumstances? Like, if someone asks you what day it is, what is a more useful answer - "December" or "13th". Like, they get all the knowledge they need from the 13th.
I say "the 13th of December". Bit like saying "the fourth of July"
- 13th of December 2020
- Neat ascending order
- In many languages even in speech the only natural way to say it is with the date first, month second, year third.
I only recognize the palindromic date format: YDMYYMDY (e.g. 2/1/1/02/2/3/0)
