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This is why I normally use "23/Aug/2023" form. Only breaks down if you don't know the months in English.
by wheybags 3y ago
This is why I normally use "23/Aug/2023" form. Only breaks down if you don't know the months in English.
- a_gnostic 3y agoMy military friend uses YYYY/MM/DD. Used to tick me off, but makes sense now.
- jayknight 3y agoISO 8601, ftw.
- fragmede 3y agoISO 8601 is yyyy-mm-ddthh:mm:ss.sssZ
- thfuran 3y agoDays in that format even order as proper numbers instead of some kind of little endian disaster.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoI've seen people do YYYY/DD/MM, so your friend's format isn't foolproof. OTOH although I'm sure some insane person somewhere has done YYYY-DD-MM I've never seen it so YYYY-MM-DD should be safe.
- a_gnostic 3y agoYYYY/MM/DD is in order of size. Y > M > D makes some kind of sense.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoSome languages pronounce the date as year, day, month so some people write YYYY/DD/MM. Since both YYYY/DD/MM and YYYY/MM/DD make sense to different people, neither should be used.
- lnx01 3y agoISO8601 or death
- DarkmSparks 3y agoI use this format generally because a basic string sort puts them in the correct order. trying to sort MM/DD/YYYY is just silly.
- pimlottc 3y agoI also really like this form for regular communications, though I use spaces. It feels more natural than ISO format while being unambiguous. You can also add the day of the month and it's nicely balanced between letters and numbers, and you can also drop the year when it's clear from context: "Hey, are you free for dinner on Wed 23 Aug?" ISO is great for records and filename, but it's clumsy in conversation: "Hey, are you free for dinner on 2023-08-20?"