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i invented my own which i find easier or at least more useful to read, and a requirement is it does sort properly: YYYYMMmonDD today is 202309sep21 because i
by fsckboy 3y ago
i invented my own which i find easier or at least more useful to read, and a requirement is it does sort properly: YYYYMMmonDD
today is 202309sep21
because i use it for filenames, i don't put in extra punctuation, there are enough cues in the format as is. To really see it, imagine scanning a list of files with different dates
it will still collate properly mixed with languages other than english
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- sokoloff 3y agoMaybe I'm not understanding something, but it seems like it would not collate properly with mixed languages: 202304abr22 - My Spanish appointment 202304apr15 - My English appointment 202304avr07 - My French appointment If you placed the month at the end, it would: 20230407avr - My French appointment 20230415apr - My English appointment 20230422abr - My Spanish appointment
- fsckboy 3y agooh, you make a good point. I'm generally using it for monthly bank statements and whatnot so I'm not looking for fine grained collation, just grouping of "like with like", and i have some international accounts
- Nevermark 3y agoI like that, and if day of week is relevant: 20230915sepFRI Or for a legibility/size tradeoff: 2023.09.15.sep.fri All that left is adding the Chinese zodiac year! 2023.09.05.rab.sep.fri Now I am just slightly bothered that the abbreviated words don’t form an isomorphic representation to the numeric. :( 2023.09.05.3watrab.sep.3fri There! 3rd Friday in September, 3rd Water Hare from the first in 1903! :) (In the US we could name years in the form: 4th year of Roosevelt, etc.)