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Me too. It lead to good things though: 1. When I write (on paper) I always write the month in words and the year in full. So 9 August 2010 or 9 Aug 2010. No un
by pierrefar 16y ago
Me too. It lead to good things though:
1. When I write (on paper) I always write the month in words and the year in full. So 9 August 2010 or 9 Aug 2010. No uncertainty there.
2. When I name files or folders, it's always YYYY-MM-DD.
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoI believe YYYY-MM-DD is the international standard date notation (ISO 8601) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html One point which makes me love this one is that it's "easily sortable and comparable", which is great when you have tons of files in a folder.
- sanj 16y agoI do everything YYYY-MM-DD because it always sorts correctly and is consistent with ISO8601. MM/DD/YYYY is a most miserable convention.