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and the geeks will enter yy/mm/dd More precisely, I think many geeks will enter YYYY-MM-DD — http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.
by imurray 15y ago
and the geeks will enter yy/mm/dd
More precisely, I think many geeks will enter YYYY-MM-DD — http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html — having lived on two continents, I use this format whenever I can.
- Deprecated 15y agoBeing an old VMS fan, I always liked DD-MMM-YYYY (e.g. 29-Jul-2011). At least it eliminates the month day ambiguity which sometimes confuses me.
- kiiski 15y agoBut then you lose most of the advantages mentioned in the linked summary.
- hammock 15y agoReadability increases but sortability decreases with ddmmyy as opposed to yymmdd. Readability increases. Dates we use in day-to-day work are probably power-law distributed going backwards with more recent dates being more common. That means if most of the dates will have year 2011, we can guess that, and the day and month become more important. And if most of the months will be current or previous month, we can guess that too and day emerges as the most important piece of info- we will want to read that first. The yymmdd is less readable because it gives us information we (probably, given the power-law distribution mentioned above) already know first, such as the year. But you lose sortability, yeah.
- billswift 15y agoSame here. I started using YYYY-MM-DD for my own use as soon as I learned of it, long before I was on the internet. Among other things even the simplest sort programs will get dates in the right order.