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Off-topic: Please use ISO 8601 format(YYYY-MM-DD) for dates in titles. The US date format hurts my poor logical soul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 ht
by raus22 11y ago
Off-topic: Please use ISO 8601 format(YYYY-MM-DD) for dates in titles. The US date format hurts my poor logical soul.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
- interdrift 11y agoIt's still month 7 so it's hard to be confused. PS. From Europe.
- notNow 11y agoBut a month from now, some people will be confused for sure. So, it's more future-proof to settle for ISO or alphanumeric format to avoid confusion and miscommunication.
- mnw21cam 11y agoOr just use words (8th July 2015). But yes, YYYY-MM-DD actually sorts correctly.
- r00fus 11y agoISO all the way. Words have issues for different month languages (e.g. Auot vs. August), but otherwise is more elegant (no delimiter needed, e.g. 08JUL15)
- pavel_lishin 11y agohttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11721622/Daily-Telegraph-July-8-1915.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11721622/Daily-T...
- anc84 11y agoIt's called "8. Juli 2015" where I live. Use numbers, please.
- sk5t 11y agoSee also: https://xkcd.com/1179/ https://xkcd.com/1179/
- leopoldo 11y agoI love how they write the dates when you hover over the image. XKCD.
- grhmc 11y agoISO8601? Easy. 2015-W283. Or maybe (?) 2015188. ISO8601 will hurt your logical soul, don't stare too deeply into its eyes.
- snarfy 11y agoThere's little endian, big endian, and the US date format, which I like to call middle endian.
- Lancey 11y agoWouldn't the PC term be middle Native American?
- chinathrow 11y agoWell, to attribute that to SHARES, we should go with big endian ;)
- jsingleton 11y agoFor future proofing please use 5 digit years (YYYYY-MM-DD) e.g. 02015-07-08. :P
- OedipusRex 11y agoStardate 1673.85
- amelius 11y agoOr use JSON: {"year": 2015, "month":7, "day":8}
- juliangregorian 11y agoExcept that month starts at 0.
- VLM 11y agoAre the airlines using systems that modern? I was guessing something a bit more 01 OUTAGE-DATE-DATA. 05 OUTAGE-DATE. 10 OUTAGE-YEAR PIC 9(04). 10 OUTAGE-MONTH PIC 9(02). 10 OUTAGE-DAY PIC 9(02). 05 OUTAGE-TIME. 10 OUTAGE-HOURS PIC 9(02). 10 OUTAGE-MINUTE PIC 9(02). 10 OUTAGE-SECOND PIC 9(02). 10 OUTAGE-MILLISECONDS PIC 9(02). 05 OUTAGE-DIFF-FROM-GMT PIC S9(04). MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO OUTAGE-DATE-DATA I always kinda liked the meme from that language of "variable as picture". Calling something a picture has inherent and obvious implications WRT call by value vs call by name. On the other hand intrinsic functions like FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE are not as logically amusing.
- exelius 11y agoWe'll get around to it just as soon as we get around to using the metric system and providing universal health care.
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoIts sad that this is the top comment. When I visit European sites I don't demand they change things just for me. Maybe be more of a gracious visitor?
- briandear 11y agoWhy is this being down voted? It is true. When British sites spell things with superfluous letters (colour, for instance,) should HN readers demand that they change it to the more efficient spelling? American English is spoken natively by more people in the world than British English, so therefore must we banish British English from these pages? Of course not. We could argue that the US has the largest number of visitors to HN than any other country. HN is an American site. YC is an American organization. Thus, those not comfortable with American conventions really ought to get over it. The United States has the world's largest economy, according to the IMF, World Bank and UN. So obviously the US is doing something right. Perhaps the rest of the world ought to adopt American conventions. I say that in jest, but the point is that criticizing the American way of doing things is a popular sport, yet at the end of the day, the American system has resulted in an economic output greater than Germany, the UK, France and Italy combined. The EU has a per-capita GDP of $36,779 and the US is at $54,601. So apparently something is working with the American way of doing things. Just because "the rest of the world" does it doesn't make it better. This whole idea that the American way of doing things is somehow inferior is just as ridiculous as the British/French rivalry. The fact that the parent comment is the top comment is ridiculous. It's a petty thing about which to complain and adds nothing to the discussion. In fact, the parent comment ought to be down voted for being absolutely irrelevant to the posting in question.
- mark-r 11y agoI worked for a company that did a special translation of its software from American English to British English alongside the other languages they did. The Brits loved it, although they were mystified by the pricing - it cost them in Pounds as much as it cost the US customer in Dollars.
- mark-r 11y agoI tried to get a former employer to switch to ISO format, since they had offices both in the US and Ireland. There was too much pushback so I didn't succeed, but I at least got them close: 2015-Jul-08.