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As an aside, wtf kind of date convention or formatting is 8/01/2023 and is it really August already? Is there some sort of an issue preventing people from wrapp
by riffic 3y ago
As an aside, wtf kind of date convention or formatting is 8/01/2023 and is it really August already? Is there some sort of an issue preventing people from wrapping their minds around ISO 8601?
https://xkcd.com/1179/ https://xkcd.com/1179/
- mvdtnz 3y agoIt's the normal format for the majority of the world.
- riffic 3y agoYo, what can be more normal than a deliberately designed and unambiguous international standard? Since we're "hackers" here we can also look at the relevant RFC (and please read the initials as "request for compliance"): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339
- thatguymike 3y agoYYYYMMDD makes the most sense, but DDMMYYYY is second best because it arranges the parts in a logical order, least to most significant. The only nonsensical ordering is MMDDYYYY.
- shapefrog 3y ago> MMDDYYYY People who use this notation (and its derivatives) are committing crimes against humanity.