Why is there no format that gives the month in three letter abbreviation so its clear cut what it means?
That’s what the us armed forces do. Jun-12-2025
My time abroad has taught me that YYYY/MM/DD is the way to format dates.
My time using a computer and trying to have any semblance of organization has taught me the same
thank you for spreading the good word
my man!
its really the only option if you’re using it for things like file storage.
Excuse me but [email protected] .
YYYY-MM-DD if you’re doing backup naming, easier to find
Or you’re Canadian
Yup, versioned files ALWAYS get a YYYY-MM-DD HHMM timestamp. So when you sort alphabetically, they sort chronologically.
Wrong, not for windows. 1<5<10 there.
That’s why you always have the same number of digits. 01 < 05 < 10
“Apologies, Jason. It’s you & not me.
You’re just the opposite of the man I could ever want to spend the rest of my years with.”
iso8601 aka 2025-06-12
rfc3339 my beloved
For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.
Nah they should adopt metric time and nothing else.
You monster
For consistency, Europeans should adopt ss:mm:hh DD-MM-YYYY.
See how ridiculous that is? ISO8601 or GTFO
The european one is sorted based on importance to see. The day is more important than the month which is more important than the year. The hour is more important than the minute which is more important than the second
But in any given situation where the month is important enough that I need to know it, I want to know the month regardless of the day. The 25th means fuck all to me unless I know the month, as well; whereas there are plenty of scenarios where I want to know the month but the day isn’t quite as important.
In that case, nothing is stopping you from saying the month only.
The same thing happens to the year and day too
January means nothing if you dont know the year
Usually if someone just says the 25th that means of the current month. The month only needs to be referred to if it’s not the same as the current. (In conversation)
At least ss:mm:hh and DD-MM-YYYY are internally consistent, even if they aren’t consistent with each other.
MM-DD-YYYY isn’t even internally consistent.
This is stupid AF.
YYYY/MM/DD
This is the best choice.
Its the better choice for digital data I guess. In every day use, the day is the most important thing, then month, then year.
From context, I usually know the year. Probably even the month. So I’ll use DD.MM.YYYY. If someone asks me when we’re going to meet I won’t say “twenty-twentyfive”, June, twentieth. And I’m guessing you don’t do that either.
/isn’t a valid char in filenames, yyyy-mm-dd is better
Heretic!
YYYY.MM.DD is the correct format.
small correction: YYYY-MM-DD to avoid common special meanings chars
If you use DD/MM/YYYY then logically you should also use ss:mm:hh
Or just use ISO8601 whi uses hh:mm:ss and well it is an ISO standard, but at least DD:MM:YYYY makes more sense than what Americans are doing.
Also 4th of july …
No, because in most cases the most important information about a date is the day, then month, then year. It also matches the way we read dates. For the time it’s typically the hour, then minutes, then seconds. YYYY/MM/DD is better when naming files, but in UIs I much prefer DD/MM/YYYY, it’s just more natural to the way we read.
SMH…
Sarcastically Shaking My Many Hydra Heads.
I’m fine with anything in the realm of yyyymmdd or reversed, as long as it isn’t the confusing format that is common in the USA
Epoch, takes a bit of practice but I already read it fluently and often make fun of everyone arpund me for not knowing how to read a clock (my clock)
ISO 8601 gang.
Represent.
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is the only acceptable format.
Nope, it clearly should be mmsshhMMDDYYYY
ISO 8601 is clearly much superior due to being delimited.
ISO is paywalled therefore inferior than the free RFC.
Immediate red flag, we all know that YYYY/MM/DD is the only acceptable perfect date
Actually YYYY-MM-DD is better since it can be used basically everywhere and with / it can’t be used in filenames
Agreed. As a nonviolent person, I’m willing to go to war over this. Can’t have two files from different years listed side by side because they were from the first day of different months. That’s anarchy.
Preeeety sure it’s stardate.
I thought that was unix time /s
No, it’s a unix directory structure
