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[-] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Pi day is a fake holiday created by people who don't know how to format dates. Also, relevant xkcd.

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

TIL XKCD has a mobile site

ISO format is the only correct way to format dates.

[-] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Aw yeah! UTC gang!

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)

DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.

MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Interesting. I prefer hyphens to improve readability

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Luckily for you that's the iso standard haha

I wouldn't mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don't believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.

You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you're an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).

The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.

Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

If you want a computer to sort dates in a sane manner, year-month-day is the only option. Anything else is madness.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Biggest to smallest - makes it easy to sort by date for things like folders of photos. And other things, I’m sure.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Biggest to smallest fails though for years which are smaller than the months, and for months which are smaller than the days.

e.g. Dec 1st 2003, would be written 12/03/01 biggest to smallest

I don't think you've thought this through, and frankly I question your mother's sexual decency.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Biggest is referring to length of time, not number. Years are bigger than months are bigger than days, temporally.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Four digit years are required, as are dashes. 2012-03-01

Do you even ISO, bro?

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thats because they dont have the same starting spot

5045874580890/165951270140/13829272511

DDDDDDDDDDDDD/MMMMMMMMMMMM/YYYYYYYYYYY is the best date format

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

Finally, a fellow scholar!

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

I mean biggest to smallest in units of time (year/month/day)

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 0 points 4 months ago
[-] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago

why you guys downvoting this?

this is so obviously satire

[-] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

It's harmless fun, come downvote with us!

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