Memes

Gotta love well sorted items.

I find that it's better than confusing month and day and going insane when dealing with both American and Bri'ish clients

Year-Month-Day best everywhere

YYYY-DD-MM is some unintuitive shit.

I always have written my dates this way. It's one of those things that always seemed weird to me and then when I realize that only in America do we write our dates MM-DD-YYYY /facepalm

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.

Lot of talk of numerics only. The problem there is knowing what format the information is in since clearly there are 3 possibilities. Without context and during certain parts of the month you're hosed. Best to remove ambiguity and go with the alpha numeric format.

DD MMM YY (or alternatively YYYY)

11 Aug 2023

Ambiguity gone.

The dashes waste space. You'll know what 20230809 means in context.

Directories exist for a reason