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Not only is YYYY/MM/DD unambiguous, but it also sorts correctly by date when you perform a naive alphabetical sort.
by fastball 1y ago
Not only is YYYY/MM/DD unambiguous, but it also sorts correctly by date when you perform a naive alphabetical sort.
- LoganDark 1y agoI believe YYYY-MM-DD is even less ambiguous than YYYY/MM/DD.
- a96 1y agoCorrect. Slashes mean it's a yank date and going to be backwards. Dashes hint that it's going to be (close to) ISO standard.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoAnd it doesn't use a path-separator character for the date.
- tom_ 1y agoSlashes are used for dd/mm/yyyy as well. Dashes are indeed better if you want a separator. or use the separator-free ISO 8601 syntax.
- worik 1y agoI just use the number of peta-seconds since I was born....