Until microsoft makes that the default down in the lower right corner, I don't think we'll make much headway. I've been trying to get my office to do their dated files in YYYYMMDDHHMM for years. I do mine that way but I can't get anybody else to comply. This meme lists that as a discouraged format, I guess the dashes are ISO but I don't care about the dashes. I would accept doing YYYY-MM-DD over MMDDYYYY any time though.
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The dashes make it far easier for regular humans.
ISO 8601 recommends inserting a T between the calendar date portion and the time of day portion. So: 20250501T2210+00.
The Microsoft thing is entirely regional. It's not that Microsoft does dates a certain way, it's your regional defaults. I live in a country that does dates the ISO and the computer displays them thay way.
Someone once told me that american date format follows the same pattern as regular speech. Like "26th of April, 2004. It made some sense to me, but that still feels a silly reason to discard just the sorting benefits.
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I agree with the ISO approach, but unfortunately without mainstream adoption in a majority of countries it's just another standard.
Upset we didn't get a "Half a score, two years, two months, and four days ago..."
Amen. Shout it from the rooftops!
10:13 PM on February 27th, but how do you write the year?
So, assuming you got the time wrong and meant you could confuse year and time of day, ISO also puts time after date.
2025-05-01T18:18:03Z
Which makes sense. Higher unit to lower unit.
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This is the way.
I work at a global company an in my team there are people from 5 continents. we use 27-Feb-23. It's the only way nobody gets confused and it's only 1 char more. (Tbf nobody would be confused only my boss that is american lol)
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