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[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (24 children)

ISO 8601 is YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-MM-DD in extended format)

Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading 20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters?

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 23 points 1 day ago (17 children)

As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.

[–] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 7 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

So do I, but I don't think I need to worry too much about confusing them with 2090.

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I could hope to live that long!

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

Wise people plant trees whose shade they'll never stand in.

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