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Ya know, I really think every language needs to agree on having a distinct month, day, and year marker to completely eliminate all date confusion. And I mean something universal, even if it's as simple as a sun symbol for days and moon symbol for months, similar to Japanese. Whenever I see a date in Japanese, I am absolutely never confused at all and I appreciate it.
I feel like DD/MM/YYYY is the same as doing: ss:mm:HH and I find that confusing.
That’s really funny. DMY is more like Hms in that it is in descending order of relevance. Most people asking the date or time are looking for the hour of the day or the day of the month, and the rest is context.
ITT: people saying one thing is better than any other without thinking of context.
If I want to know today's date ISO 8601 isn't a good answer. And if I put stuff in folders by date then DD-MM-YYYY is a real bad way to do it.
But MM-DD-YYYY is the worst one no matter the context.
I like YYYY-MM-DD because then I don't have to figure out half the time if they used MM-DD-YYYY or if they were sane.
I agree, if you truncate YYYY-MM-DD you can only shorten it to showing the year and month. Besides, if I ask someone the date and they start from the year I'll just pull my phone out.
The one you grew up with tends to be your preference. But the usual reason I give for MM-DD-YYYY is it matches how it's said.
December 25th, 2026
12-25-2026
I also know there's no point in arguing about this because, again, my first sentence. It's just team sports stuff, as usual. The only reason why you would bother to argue is if you were trying to convince people to use a standard. But as you pointed out, ISO 8601 already exists. That is the agreed upon standard already. But no one uses it, since we have our preferred systems of date format already ingrained.
FYI it’s not really said like that elsewhere, they say
“(Friday the) 25th of December, 2026”
If I want to know today's date ISO 8601 isn't a good answer
Can be tailed to the relevant bit though.
DD(First 3 of Month, All Caps)YYYY examples: 01JAN2026, 24MAR1987,20DEC3065
This is how I had to write dates when I worked for a cGMP pharma manufacturing facility and did controlled paperwork. The idea was it was it was impossible for any mistakes when reading the date, only the days were 2 digits, the month was letters, and the year was 4 digits.
Basically all of the validated SOPs were written so that anyone could pick up the paperwork and execute the instructions, and the inverse had to be true as well anyone picking up a completed SOP should be able to read and follow everything written down, and literally every step in the process required initials and date it was executed.
Fun fact, if you fucked up and wrote something wrong or illegibly you were punished twice, once because you had to strike out the mistake, initial date the strikeout and write correctly the next time, and the second was when you get stink eyed by the QA people who have to review all the paperwork before it's scanned and logged back into documentum.
Months are stupid anyway, lets drop them and swap for what they were supposed to represent instead: the moon phase, so today would be 216-2026-Waning Gibbous
1785793853 seconds since Linux epoch
ISO 8601
Not shit enough for a shitpost.
As for why it's better:
To be fair, the time separators don't behave well on all implementations of filesystem access by filename. Need to use underscores or omit them at times.
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YYYY-MM-DD
This is the only way to date.
I've recently noticed web forms and appointment emails start to use that format. Maybe web devs are sneaking it in bit by bit.
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This is the way.
This is the way.
This is the (year-month-) day.
I read this meme and was physically revolted and wanted to immediately down vote. Great job.
The superior date format is, of course, ISO 8601. YYYY-MM-DD.
RFC3339 is better than ISO8601 since it doesn't allow some of the esoteric formats, and allows some useful formats that ISO8601 doesn't (like separating date and time by a space instead of by T)
For example, 2026-W32-1 is also a valid ISO8601 date: Monday on the 32nd week of 2026. That format isn't allowed with RFC3339.
yyyy/mm/dd, it's less ambiguous and it sorts nicely
Edit: so many replies suggesting using a hyphen as a separator, I'd like to compromise by using the oblique angle sign (⦧) which looks like a slash that becomes a hyphen in the middle. yyyy⦧mm⦧dd
I should turn your comment into a shitpost...
53 comments and I'm the first effusive nerd to bring up unix epoch? Nothing happened before 0 (1970-01-01 00:00:00) anyway.
Epoch is signed though, that 1970 date is the midpoint