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Yep and it needs to use hyphens and not slashes. It helps avoid missed typos or mis-reads in some situations, especially if hand-written.
The one that ends us with f... I mean ISO 8601 of course
For organizing my stuff I use yyyy/mm/dd because in my opinion it's much better for that. Otherwise dd/mm/yyyy.
it's either DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD.
ISO 8601 or gtfo
I proper shit post would have suggested “mm/dd/yyyy”.
The problem is not the format itself, its just sometimes we don't know which format is used: 07/07/26
4/Aug/2026
Already saw 1 person write 4/7/26. Writing that 3-4 letters for the month both solves the day/month vs month/day issue, and the off chance someone makes mistake of the month number
Yeah, this is how I do it. Computers are more than capable of handling the three-letter abbreviation for months nowadays, versus some bygone era where perhaps we needed just numbers. This is how I date anything that I need to out a date on.
yeah yeah a bit confusing lol
You're all too ambiguous!
04-Aug-2026 is the only acceptable format
I love when all my reports are listed by day....
Oogh. Such rage bait.
FAIL
yyyy-mm-dd
This is the answer. So easy to sort.
Yep. Doing that joke and landing on anything but ISO-8601 would be a huge red flag for me.
Being able to sort numerically and have it also be in chronological order is sooo cool.
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We grew up on MM/DD/YYYY but all our computer stuff is YYYY/MM/DD however now that we live in EU we use DD/MM/YYYY and still YYYY/MM/DD for files in pc
She seems impressed
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
But you'll end up with months instead of minutes!
Please use any kind of separation character or I'm gonna lose my mind
Best I can give you is a single "_"
202609041006_15
Most evil place to put it.
Noar
ISO 8601
YYYY-MM-DD
Open source, and no ambiguous options grandfathered in.
Was looking for this. Yes. Whenever possible, dates should be specified in a format that is BOTH RFC 3339 and ISO 8601. I'd say both have their quirks, but the intersection of the grammars is machine-parseable and human-readable without (much) legacy baggage or (much) experimental / reserved-for-future-use noise.
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As for why it's better:
- It's in sort order. Even if you use it for things that don't understand dates, they sort properly because the day is the last part, month is the middle part, and year is the first part. If you include hours, minutes or seconds, the sort order is still preserved.
- Speaking of things that don't understand dates, because there are no slashes, you can easily use it in file names, directories, and anything else that treats slash as a special character. In addition, if you include the time part, because it uses "T" to separate the date and time, it doesn't use a space, so once again it can be easily used anywhere where a space might cause issues.
ISO is better for archiving and sorting, inarguably so. But dd-mm-yyyy is better for day to day daily life usage, where the day and month are much more important than the year.
Both have their uses, but for different situations. mm-dd-yyyy is just batshit though.
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I feel like DD/MM/YYYY is the same as doing: ss:mm:HH and I find that confusing.
I see the duality in this but I still think both are valid. When telling the time, there's usually no point in including the seconds since they'll have changed before you finish saying the whole thing anyway. In spoken word IMO it makes sense to go from more specific to less specific, and even not include extra parts sometimes (e. g. "today is the 3rd" when it's expected to know the month and, well, year from context, or "it's half past" to someone whom you've told the time a couple of minutes ago).
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