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YYYY/MM/DD is good for file locating in a single folder.
This is the way
this is the way
I just do YY/MM/DD. It is highly unlikely someone is looking at those files a century later.
YYYY-MM-DD gang rise up!
ISO 8601. This is the way.
For naming in file names yes.
For every mention of any date ever.
Even when talking to your friends.
When's your birthday?
2025-11-23
<1993-11-23+1y>
(repeating timestamp)
Surely you mean R/1993-11-23/P1Y?
oh wow, did not know that had a spec!
I was referring to:
https://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html
Use ISO 8601 or get out.
Except, don't actually use ISO 8601 because the T in the middle looks stupid.
You're in luck! The T is optional provided you include separators between your hours, minutes, and seconds!
hmmm... but without a T you get
2025-09-0119:42
0119 looks weird.
ISO 8601 FTW
I didn’t get erect by that wiki, but it moved slightly
YYYY-MM-DD
:hh:mm:ss optional
I agree. What is the point of dating things if they aren't in order when done.
Sometimes it's just about the sex.
Also makes it easier to sort
Exactly! I generate a frack-ton of excel reports at work, and I output them in the format Subject-Report-2025-09-01.
And on another note, when you're traveling through the time Continuum, do you ask the nearest person for the day and month first? Nope, it's always "what year is it?!" because you're probably being chased by futuristic terrorists or super soldiers...
You, I like you.
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Any answer other than ISO 8601 is a red flag
RFC 3339 has less ambiguities, see https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
Sure, but that's also iso8601:
This document defines a date and time format for use in Internet protocols that is a profile of the ISO 8601 standard
!rfc3339@programming.dev
ISO 8601 is the only true answer.
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.
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.
The 1st of September, year of our Lord 2025 AD.
September 1st, 1981 AD, 12:01PM and 5 seconds, 35 feet west of Paris, Wisconsin on the Horizon
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.
MM.DD.YYYY is illegal. It's random. Just sort by how big the time unit is and get DD.MM.YYYY
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.
Wait until you hear how the French say numbers.
!rfc3339@programming.dev
RED FLAG! RED FLAG!!!
DD-YYYY-MM
Because it can be pronounceable as damn.
She must hate that he doesn't prefer YYYY/MM/DD
I don't like the slashes, as hand written they can appear as a 1.
Edit: also slashes mess with file names, gotta use escape characters
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