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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by notnotmike@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago

YYYY/MM/DD

[-] wallybeavis@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

For me it's YYYY-MM-DD https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

Also, there is a special place for those people who keep making up new timestamps

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Plus slashes are more likely to be blocked by arbitrary character set validation, and fail. Dashes more clearly distinguish the segments and are more compatible

[-] tehbilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

And don't work in filenames. But yes, files being in the same order when sorted lexicographic or chronologically makes me smile.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Spacing of the letter and fewer clutter is also very good with dashes.

[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

This is probably the best format and I would concede without question. Cheers!

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I have (minor) beef with ISO 8601. It's very wishy washy about fractional seconds. It's like "eh, idc if you use a period or a comma to separate them"

[-] dufkm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I sign papers with customers from all over the world, and if I get to sign first and need to add a date, I invariably go for YYYY-MM-DD from ISO-8601. If they go first it's most often illegible to readers without any cultural context.

[-] DevOops@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 months ago

I agree. Plus, if you are naming files in your computer, using YYYY-MM-DD will keep them ordered chronologically by default.

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