Perfect date
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For computing or sorting purposes, YYYY-MM-DD is best. But in day to day writing a date, I prefer DD-MON-YYYY.
Single letter for month is too ambiguous - how do you tell apart June, July and January? Also, what do O and N denote?
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Waiting for the ISO 8601 & 9001 gang to show up and promote YYYY-MM-DD.
Edit: That took seconds, a very punctual bunch.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Anyone that gives me a document or receipt or invoice with a date formatted DD-MM-YYYY should have a tire iron swung at their thighs
Multiple swings if they can't decide on using DD-MM-YYYY or MM-DD-YYYY or DD-MM-YY or MM-DD-YY or YY-MM-DD or YY-DD-MM
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Waiting for the ISO 8601 & 9001 gang to show up and promote YYYY-MM-DD.
Edit: That took seconds, a very punctual bunch.
As a big ISO 8601 guy myself, I request explanation of this 9001 addition? Never heard of it till now and am optimistic
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Don't go with this psycho! He mixes European style order with US style punctuation.
common in Belgium, probably other countries too
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MM/DD/YY for me.
Edit: I learned something new today.
Stop it Patrick you're scaring them!
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Nice ragebaiting.
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MM/DD/YY for me.
Edit: I learned something new today.
I never downvote people on Lemmy but I did for this one .... I just spent the past month going through some invoicing and paper receipts and it is absolutely infuriating to still see some businesses using MM-DD-YY while others insist on DD-MM-YY and some businesses have invoicing and receipt printers that use one or the other but not the same. It's not a big deal if you are dealing with documents that are a month or two old because you can guess from what time period they come from ... but it is absolutely confusing if documents get older than that.
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Single letter for month is too ambiguous - how do you tell apart June, July and January? Also, what do O and N denote?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Seems you missed the point, it's first three letters of the month, not one.
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Seems you missed the point, it's first three letters of the month, not one.
Edit: seems I missed the joke on the post.The O is for the kind of whooshing sound
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MM/DD/YY for me.
Edit: I learned something new today.
I escaped reddit for this?
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RFC 3339 if you please. Let's be prescriptive.
After all the self-important blowhards in the committe were satisified that they had put their fingerprint on the ISO8601 document with bullshit like "year-month-week" format support and signed off, they went home.
The rest stayed behind, waited a few minutes to be safe, and then quickly made RFC3339 like a proper standard.
This is what RFC3339 vs ISO8601 feels like.
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I’m now imagining a child who must write
2026-05-10T10:06:09.426792Zon all of their tests.Microsecond precision is fine for most use cases, but I teach my kids to use nanoseconds.
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MM/DD/YY for me.
Edit: I learned something new today.
MM/YY for me. People can figure out the day of month themselves.
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Hello I've arrived
Whoo! ISO-8601 fan club!
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This fucknuts who thinks day should come before year, hah!
Give me YYYY-MM-DD, because dashes are better than slashes any day of the week. -
MM/DD/YY for me.
Edit: I learned something new today.
Hello, Y2K called, this is literally what caused it. Years stored in 2-digits had to be fixed on every computer on the planet before the calendar rolled to 2000. (People thought nukes would fly, glitches would crash the stock market and the world was going to end)
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MM/DD/YY for me.
Edit: I learned something new today.
Dang you're getting down voted but this is how all Americans talk. It's June 4th 2022.
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That's a tough one. I would have to say April 25. Because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.
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That's objectively the correctest format
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After all the self-important blowhards in the committe were satisified that they had put their fingerprint on the ISO8601 document with bullshit like "year-month-week" format support and signed off, they went home.
The rest stayed behind, waited a few minutes to be safe, and then quickly made RFC3339 like a proper standard.
This is what RFC3339 vs ISO8601 feels like.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Let's not forget that technically you have to pay for ISO8601, despite it being nearly useless as a standard because it allows several incompatible formats to coexist.
Fucking wild.
