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I agree with everything you are saying about sorting and I frequently use YYYY-MM-DD, however I do want to make one point: DD.MM.YYYY does make some human sense
by arrrg 6y ago
I agree with everything you are saying about sorting and I frequently use YYYY-MM-DD, however I do want to make one point: DD.MM.YYYY does make some human sense as a date format since the year is very rarely important (and if the year is actually important often the day is so unimportant that it can be left out), the month is sometimes important and the day is often the most relevant piece of information.
So for any kind of practical planning that day first order makes some sense, but I wouldn’t die on a hill for it.
- reportgunner 6y agoI see where you are coming from, but I would argue that if you omit a part, it's not a date anymore.
- owl57 6y agoYes! It's not the first time I posted a rant on the net and found myself guilty of the sin the very next day. This time, a web app of mine has big tables full of dates, and I didn't quickly figure out a way to show the full date without too much clutter. So, I used "dd.mm" and postponed a finer design till next year. Guess what, this UI element hasn't changed in the next three years and today I finally stumbled on a bunch of records which really can't be deduced from context.
- qubex 6y agoIt’s a cultural thing: if I’m not mistaken the traditional Chinese system is Y-M-D and always has been.