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It is also sortable, which I think is the real advantage.

• privatelypublic 1y ago
  As ling as you pad to two characters!
• globular-toast 1y ago
  I used to think this was really important, but what's the use case here? If I'm writing a document for human consumption then why would I expect the dates to be sortable by a naive string sorting algorithm? On the other hand, if it's data for computer consumption then just skip the complicated serialisation completely and dump the Unix timestamp as a decimal. Any modern data format would include the ability to label that as a timestamp data type. If you really want to be able to "read" the data file then just include another column with a human-formatted timestamp, but I can't imagine why in 2025 I would be manually reading through a data file like some ancient mathematician using a printed table of logarithms.
  • Majestic121 1y ago
    > If I'm writing a document for human consumption then why would I expect the dates to be sortable by a naive string sorting algorithm? If you're naming a document for human consumption, having the files sorted by date easily without relying on modification date (which is changed by fixing a typo/etc...) is pretty neat
    • bombcar 1y ago
      This is exactly it - file name is easy to control and sort on; creates date and modified date are (for most users) random and uncontrolled.
    • globular-toast 1y ago
      So you can't sort by name, author etc? One sort key? What year is it?!