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Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.
ISO 8601 is
YYYYMMDD
(orYYYY-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?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.
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.
Oh, it was just filenames, not everything-everywhere?
Then I guess it's fine.
What's this date btw?
10/8/10