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amanneedsamaid ,

Nothing beats ISO 8601, YYYY-MM-DD

MelodiousFunk ,
@MelodiousFunk@kbin.social avatar

This is the way.

mikazuki ,

RFC 3339! ISO 8601 has way too many weird formats that are allowed like today would be 2023-W41-2. See for example here.

Masimatutu OP ,

Whoa, that’s a cool website!

TheBiscuitLout ,

It’s really pleasing seeing the seconds all change in unison!

rojun ,

I feel offended - W%W-%w is my preferred way of noting down dates :D

amanneedsamaid ,

Great, now I need to memorize “RFC 3339”, because I officially have a new favorite date format. Thank you!

msage ,

Fortunately this one is easy:

three threes equals 9 3339

pingveno ,

RFC 3339 when you need the basics, ISO 8601 when you need something more niche. Some applications genuinely need to view the year as weeks and days of the week instead of months and days of the month.

GrammatonCleric ,
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

My head hurts

pancakes ,
@pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

The most logical format, especially for digital files.

MystikIncarnate ,

This is the way.

Put the most significant digits first. Always.

Chunk ,

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00

THE ONE TRUE FORMAT

filcuk ,

Well, the standard provides various formats, such as YYYY-\WWW.

Agent641 ,

BC or AD?

Ookami38 ,

Does the T just signify that Time starts after it? I’ve never really examined the full UTC format, YYYY-MM-DD has always been enough for my uses.

Flumsy ,

The T stands for the timezone.

Ookami38 ,

Aaaah that makes a lot of sense.

Holzkohlen ,

I am fine with any format that puts the month between year and day.

themusicman ,

Same, but MSD->LSD is nice in general for the alphanumeric ordering

bitsplease ,

100%

  • alphabetical order = chronological order
  • unambiguous regardless of locale
  • easy to read/parse by either machine or human
TesterJ ,

I remember in high school a friend waited until 10/10/10 to ask a girl out so he’d never forget their anniversary. I think they dated for like a month lol

Bassman1805 ,

10/10 plan

ScrotusMaximus ,

10 percent of the time it works 10 percent.

g8phcon2 ,

It's not a bad idea, that's why I got married on 2/14 so I wouldn't get stuck having to have an extra gift giving holiday.

Neon ,

i’ll say it time and time again:

This format is shit and makes no sense

WhiteHawk ,

No no, he got married in the 14th month of the year which doesn’t exist, so there wouldn’t ever be an anniversary

Neon ,

I unironically asked myself what happened in February of 2014 at first lmao

g8phcon2 ,

How does it make no sense? I read 2/14 as "February 14th". How do you read 14/2?

Masimatutu OP ,

In most contexts, “/” means something like “(out) of”, and “14 of 2” makes a lot more sense than “2 of 14” when describing the fourteenth of February (or February fourteenth, as you would say it).

thrawn ,

Pretty weak reasoning. It just as often “or” like this/that. If not more— who’s actually looking at fractions that often? I’d argue the punctuation attached to that specific date format shouldn’t be the basis for the order itself, and dashes or periods are common too.

The better reasoning is that the day is typically more relevant than the month. A downside though is that it’s bad for sorting: YYYY-MM-DD is the best way to automatically sort by date, and ease in digital sorting is arguably the most important factor in date formatting. It’s kind of a silly thing that people don’t care about outside of memes otherwise.

Annoyed_Crabby ,

Fourteenth of February? Just like Fourth of July.

g8phcon2 ,

that's...more words, and more thought, it's only the 4th of July because it's a holiday preceding July 5th and following July third.

Annoyed_Crabby ,

It’s just one more syllable, or one word(no s, because it’s not plural). People prefer to say dou ble u dou ble u dou ble u instead of world wide web, and that’s even more syllables. It’s also arranged in a neat way, from day to month to year.

it’s only the 4th of July because it’s a holiday preceding July 5th and following July third.

That’s the issue i guess, you guys jump from one format to another and then back and that’s considered normal🤷

WhiteHawk ,

You know, there are other languages besides English as well

TheRealKuni ,

Yeah but God wrote the Bible, the Constitution, and the Star-Spangled Banner in English, so that means it’s God’s language. Y’all can suck our Freedom!

Neon ,

Vierzehnter Februar

Fourteenth February

octoperson ,

2nd of Dodecember

TheRealKuni ,

2nd of Dodecember

I find it hilarious that the imaginary 14th month gets to be called “12th” because (ostensibly) the early Romans couldn’t be bothered to have winter months.

petersr ,

Let me guess, instead of asking out another girl on 11/11/11 he played Skyrim?

cheery_coffee ,

In my opinion that game aged quite poorly.

Revolutionary when it came out, nearly unplayable now though. It’s like a modern Goldeneye.

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