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that's reason I switched to ISO 8601 in my folders structure decades ago, obviously can't use it in regular documents/communication in Europe there used to be
by Markoff 6y ago
that's reason I switched to ISO 8601 in my folders structure decades ago, obviously can't use it in regular documents/communication in Europe
there used to be similar problem with alphabet (folder) sorting though, where Windows used to sort letter CH which goes after H in alphabet right within C as if CH didn't exist, but I think they sorted it in recent years, though I use English Windows and still have this issue, it's quite easy for sorting actually since H never follows C in Slovak or Czech language and when they are together they always make letter CH, so it should be easy to fix for sorting file/folder names
orally we use 12 hours time format even in most of the Europe, we just use in digital watch 24hr format
- bonzini 6y agoEnglish Windows applies English sorting rules, whereby CH is not a separate letter. It is not easy at all, different languages have different rules, including multiple passes over the input (e.g. the first for letters and the second for accents), even some of them left-to-right and some right-to-left.
- eCa 6y ago> obviously can't use it in regular documents/communication in Europe What I do when travelling in Europe[1] is to un-ambuigify the date by replacing the month number with the English month abbreviation: 2021-feb-26. It's non-standard but can't reasonably be misunderstood by a human. [1] I'm from a European country where the ISO 8601 way of writing dates is common, and more specifically neither the American nor "European" formats are ever used.
- p_l 6y agoIf document didn't have specified time format, I never had issues using YYYY-mm-dd from ISO 8601. And the ones that had specified time format were upfront about expected format, so... Would be interested where anyone encountered issues with ISO8601 dates
- Viliam1234 6y ago> H never follows C in Slovak or Czech language "viachodinový" (multihour), "viachlavý" (multiheaded)... in Slovak. Not sure if there are examples in Czech. Essentially, in Slovak it is impossible to implement algorithmical alphabetical sorting without understanding the language, to determine whether "ch" appears on the word stem boundary. But yeah, you can sort 99.99% of words by assuming it does not... and maybe increase it to 99.9999% by making an exception for words starting with "viac-".