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[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 30 points 1 day ago (32 children)

Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (25 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?

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

So, was the time of murder 20th of October 2021 - 1:25 PM or 21st of October 2020 - 1:25 AM?

Depending upon that, you may/may-not have an alibi.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

We're just talking about the filename, the exact creation time is tracked by the OS. Plus I'd imagine most documents also have a time and date inside. The file name is mostly for sorting and human readability.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 35 minutes ago

Oh, it was just filenames, not everything-everywhere?
Then I guess it's fine.

What's this date btw?
10/8/10

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