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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 306 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (26 children)

Waiting for the ISO 8601 & 9001 gang to show up and promote YYYY-MM-DD.

Edit: That took seconds, a very punctual bunch.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 114 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Whoo! ISO-8601 fan club!

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (7 children)

YYYYMMDD, scrub out the excess fat!

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

That's ... why I'm here

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago (5 children)

RFC 3339 if you please. Let's be prescriptive.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I’m now imagining a child who must write 2026-05-10T10:06:09.426792Z on all of their tests.

[–] littleonescared@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They should also add a timezone since most of us don't live at UTC zero timezones -> 2012-12-28T18:12:33+09:00

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They did; the Z at the end denotes UTC.

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[–] amlor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I’m doing my part!

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago

ISO 8601/RFC-3339 (Unix Epoch also acceptable) gang reporting in.

[–] trijste@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

ISO thirsty!

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 91 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This format is the best. Especially for digital file names, because sorting the files by filename also sorts them by date.

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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago

ISO 8601 gang.

Represent.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Immediate red flag, we all know that YYYY/MM/DD is the only acceptable perfect date

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

YYYY-MM-DD if you're doing backup naming, easier to find

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yup, versioned files ALWAYS get a YYYY-MM-DD HHMM timestamp. So when you sort alphabetically, they sort chronologically.

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[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 51 points 1 week ago

iso8601 aka 2025-06-12

[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My time abroad has taught me that YYYY/MM/DD is the way to format dates.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

My time using a computer and trying to have any semblance of organization has taught me the same

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[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is the only acceptable format.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ISO 8601 is clearly much superior due to being delimited.

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For consistency, Europeans should adopt ss:mm:hh DD-MM-YYYY.

See how ridiculous that is? ISO8601 or GTFO

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

You monster

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[–] esc27@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If you use DD/MM/YYYY then logically you should also use ss:mm:hh

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sarcastically Shaking My Many Hydra Heads.

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[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Don't go with this psycho! He mixes European style order with US style punctuation.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is stupid AF.

YYYY/MM/DD

This is the best choice.

/ isn't a valid char in filenames, yyyy-mm-dd is better

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[–] pyrflie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Heretic!

YYYY.MM.DD is the correct format.

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago

small correction: YYYY-MM-DD to avoid common special meanings chars

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (8 children)

For computing or sorting purposes, YYYY-MM-DD is best. But in day to day writing a date, I prefer DD-MON-YYYY.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 week ago
[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] hacktheegg@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago

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

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