Fluffy56,

MM/DD/YY Anything else is wrong

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

Personally I prefer TWENTYTWO–ELEVEN–TWOTHOUSANDTWENTYTHREE–ELEVEN:FIFTYSIX–ANTEMERIDIAN

ArmokGoB,
NotYourSocialWorker,

It’s the only one that makes any logical sense!

matogoro,
@matogoro@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

ISO-8601. God’s own date-time format

tdgoodman,

The overlap of iso-8601 and rfc-3339 is God’s own, the regions outside are lower. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/25001e72-2978-427a-a3e8-19f15b9c4692.jpeg

matogoro,
@matogoro@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I feel like I should frame this graphic. It’s beautiful

iesou,

Absolutely! Everything else needs special algos for organization to put it in the proper order. This format just works numerically out of the box.

interdimensionalmeme,

/c/iso8601 assemble !

tacosplease,

This person sorts

Zebov,

01JAN23 is the only sensible way.

Samsy,

I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.

ninchuka,

because they get downloaded from say reddit and then reuploaded again a year later or so which since most sites/services compress files uploaded they get worse and worse quality

Swarfega,

It’s the modern version of the VHS or cassette tape.

LemmyFeed,

It’s because people keep taking screenshots of the image and sharing the screenshot instead of the original image file. It’s like making a copy of a copy of a copy until it looks like garbage.

interdimensionalmeme,

Stop right there criminal scum, you are not allow to publish original copyrighted works, you are stealing from the artist’s mouth by squandering his market value !

So that’s why normal people screenshot.

Futurama,

As usual, there’s an xkcd for that. Along with a more detailed explanation.

gusVLZ,

yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win

MonkderZweite,

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  • kurosawaa,

    Never visit Europe then.

    NotYourSocialWorker,

    In Sweden we tend to use iso, except sometimes on “Best before” dates. It’s always fun trying to figure out if your food is going bad by, for instance, the 10th of August or the 8th of October…

    andyortlieb,

    I don’t like it, but at least the numbers are ordered by specificity. MM/DD/YYYY is a big red flag.

    csolisr, (edited )

    Tired: ISO date format

    Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch

    Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang

    PlexSheep,
    @PlexSheep@feddit.de avatar

    Impractical waste of computing power and information storage

    ezures,

    Also almost killed all computing in y2k

    csolisr,

    Not if you encode it using an exponent. One Planck time unit is roughly 1.8 x 10^-43^ seconds, so with an exponent of 2^128^ (roughly 3.4 x 10^38^) you could write a second as 54510 x 2^128^ TP

    csolisr,

    Another fun fact, 2^128+32^ Planck time units are about 21 hours

    packardgoose,

    I’d have to say April 25th because it’s not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

    renlok,

    Unix timestamp for me thanks.

    kool_newt,

    I only understand time in reference to Jan 1, 1970.

    renlok,

    Time did not exist before this date

    ForbiddenRoot,

    To eliminate this confusion I propose the days of the month should start from 13.

    jimmux,

    Do we really even need months? They don’t even line up with the lunar cycle like they pretend to do.

    Just give us Year/Day. On leap years we get an extra long New Year holiday.

    kool_newt,

    I say we force them to be alphabetical.

    Anuary Bebuary Carch Dapril

    nevial,
    @nevial@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Date aside, what’s going on with that " blank character " bullshit in the " question " ?

    newIdentity,

    YYYY-MM-DD

    Pinklink,

    Thaaaank you

    kameecoding,

    Hungarians feeling superior with their YYYY.MM.DD fornat.

    Although that’s not ideal for URLs

    pseudonym,

    I believe this is still valid according to ISO 8601 so have an upvote. It also works fine in URLs after the host part.

    ezures,

    If I had a forint for something matching order in Hungary and Japan, I would have 2 forints, which isn’t a lot but its weird it happened twice. (Its the order of names and dates)

    KidsTryThisAtHome,
    @KidsTryThisAtHome@lemmy.world avatar

    For history, sure, but for day to day stuff I think I can remember what year it is and don’t need it right at the front lol

    MystikIncarnate,

    I use this for notes, and generally everything written; mainly for reference when looking back on old information. Today, whether I say Wednesday the 9th, or 2023-08-09, it’s fairly inconsequential, but in 2-3 years if I have to reference a note, email or something else where I said today’s date, I won’t have to compare the date of the note to the calendar for that time period to see which 9th was on a Wednesday.

    Everything you do now becomes history, so adapting to this format makes it easier when today becomes your history.

    NotYourSocialWorker,

    And programmers tend to go: “I don’t need to comment my code, I know what it does” 😂

    JohnDClay, (edited )

    But we read left to right and the most important part is furthest right hardest to read. It’s convenient for computers sorting alphabetically, but bad for people reading it.

    geogle,
    @geogle@lemmy.world avatar

    I tried reading your comment right to left and was left even more confused.

    JohnDClay,

    now fixed sorry

    verdigris,

    The most important part is the year.

    JohnDClay,

    Why? The year changes least quickly, (especially the decade) so you can often infer without needing it.

    verdigris,

    Because it’s the most significant. If it’s wrong or missing you’re off by much more than if the day or month is wrong.

    JohnDClay,

    But that’s good, like a parity check. Because your wrong by much more, it’s easier to tell from context clues. That’s why people abbreviated the year to ‘in 98’ or something like that.

    pseudonym,

    The same reason “one thousand” is written 1000 and not 0001

    JohnDClay,

    Because that’s the way it’s said? Dates are spoken day month year. Because you go more specific to more general.

    newIdentity,

    Depends on where you live

    MystikIncarnate,

    Okay, hear me out.

    With other numbers, non-date numbers, we put the numbers representing the most quantity to the left, and numbers representing the last quantity to the right, eg 1 hundred, ten and 1 would be 111, where the number representing 100 qty comes first from the left, and each position moving to the right, represents a smaller and smaller amount.

    Since years are longer than months, which are longer than days, the YYYY-MM-DD format actually follows the same convention that we commonly use for all other numbering systems, big on the left, small on the right.

    So why would the date be the exception?

    xrun_detected,
    nickwitha_k,

    No more comments necessary in this thread.

    CIWS-30,

    Going day to day, dd/mm/yyyy works, but for archival purposes and looking up stuff in the past, mm/dd/yyyy works better, imo. Like when you need to go through a physical file cabinet, or an electronic database.

    Or you're the type of person who's zoned out all the time and don't even know what month it is until you look at a clock or calendar.

    png,

    I just dont see why the hell you would switch? dd/mm works fibe in all situations and has some advantages sometimes, while mm/dd is fine sometimes, but generally worse or equal.

    vrighter, (edited )

    for archival purposes yyyymmdd is best. that way you can just sort lexicographically and it’ll also be sorted chronologically

    tropicflite,

    08AUG2023 is about as unambiguous as it gets.

    pjhenry1216,

    Except it doesn't sort well in any fashion and it requires two different types of contexts to interpret. It's easier to screw up the order of a month by name than it is to screw up the order of a number. Not saying we should play to least common denominator, but we should be making it as easy as possible. I'd prefer sorting speed over needing to learn how to interpret the date correctly if every single date is stored the same way.

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