Understandable, but the keystrokes are helpful for human readable. I always have the “Suspicions Fry eyes” when I want to read 20230809 in a lot of files.
I refuse to believe anyone does this. I think the inconsistency comes down to how people speak. "The meeting will be held on the 10th of January 2023" = 10/01/2023 but "January 10, 2023" = 01/10/2023.
I don't know how you would have to torture your brain for it to feel at home with YYYY-DD-MM.
I enforce ISO 8601 for the shared storage in my office. Before I got there, files were kinda stored in all kinds of formats, but mostly month first.
I tell the person under me she can store her files in her user any way she wants, but if it goes into shared storage, it’s ISO 8601. I even have a folder in there called !Date format: YYYY-MM-DD Description to help anyone else remember.
I recall writing a script that produces that 01237 with smaller digits around it for the current date. It lists the numbers that occur in the date (0, 2, 3 and 9 for 2023-09-09), the smaller digits show at which position they show up in a YYYYMMDD format (the 0 shows up on positions 2, 5 and 7)
The script has not been pushed online cause it was so dang bad
Everyone talks big game about the file names but forget how important standardizing on log time stamps is too. When I’m able to pipe a bunch of logs into sort, I get so happy.
I’m a systems guy. ISO8601 or die. Whomever decided to put the most significant digits at the end of MMDDYYYY can get fired. From a cannon. Into the sun.
join south africa and (sorta) japan, use YYYY-MM-DD as a default - sorts well, zero ambiguity… at least until some joker starts popularising YYYY-DD-MM, anyway
Seeing as I do a lot of AV editing I use this format to keep track of Audio files I do production on. YYYYMMDD Filename Version. It’s often a case of working on a file and coming back to it weeks or months later, and in most cases there are multiple versions and revisions as I collaborate with my production partner.
It helps me keep track of the timeframe, what it is and which version so I can ensure rendered versions I’m using in other directories or as assets in other files are consistent and up to date.
The directories got quite messy and confusing initially until I adopted the ISO date format for this case.
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