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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

YYYY-MM-DD for electronic sorting.

DD-MMM-YYYY for everything else.

Edited to add: it is wild to me that people downvote someone else's opinion about something so mundane.

[-] brianary@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

If you are going to provide a separate format for readability, make it ddd MMM dd, yyyy! Day of week is quite relevant to humans.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The 1st of September, year of our Lord 2025 AD.

[-] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

September 1st, 1981 AD, 12:01PM and 5 seconds, 35 feet west of Paris, Wisconsin on the Horizon

[-] birne@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

I think using three digits for the month is a bit confusing. :)

I don't like DD-MM-YYYY. I think it should be DD.MM.YYYY. This way you can distinguish between the date formats in those cases where people only use two digits for the year. Hyphen as a seperator means year in front, a dot means year at the end. And a slash implies the bad format.

[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

MM.DD.YYYY is illegal. It's random. Just sort by how big the time unit is and get DD.MM.YYYY

[-] kazerniel@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

If you want it to be analogous to other numbers, YYYY-MM-DD makes more sense - from largest unit to smallest. We don't say e.g. 1024 metres as "24 metres and 1 kilometre" either.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Wait until you hear how the French say numbers.

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