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ISO 8601 (slrpnk.net)

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https://xkcd.com/1179

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[-] callyral@pawb.social 9 points 7 months ago

2013-02-27 = 1984

[-] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

I agree with the ISO approach, but unfortunately without mainstream adoption in a majority of countries it's just another standard.

[-] ILaughBecauseFunny@feddit.dk 8 points 7 months ago

Issue: there are 27 different ways of writing a date.

Engineers: We most make a common standard that is unambiguous, easy to understand and can replace all of these.

Issue: there are 28 different ways of writing a date.

Joke aside, I really think the iso standard for dates is the superior one!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Upset we didn't get a "Half a score, two years, two months, and four days ago..."

[-] yojimbo@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

Amen. Shout it from the rooftops!

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I work at a global company an in my team there are people from 5 continents. we use 27-Feb-23. It's the only way nobody gets confused and it's only 1 char more. (Tbf nobody would be confused only my boss that is american lol)

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

This is the way.

[-] four@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago

That format near the cat's tail should have used hue to differentiate year/month/day...

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

10:13 PM on February 27th, but how do you write the year?

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So, assuming you got the time wrong and meant you could confuse year and time of day, ISO also puts time after date.

2025-05-01T18:18:03Z

Which makes sense. Higher unit to lower unit.

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