this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Christ, do this many people really find iso8601 hard to read? It’s the date and the time with a T in the middle.
I think it's fair that programmatic and human readable can be different. If someone is putting in the month word for a logging system they can fuck right off though
That way you can sort the months of the year, in order:
I use it all the time when writing dates.
2023-08-09: just read from the end. 9th August 2023.
As long as they use letter for months, like Jul 09, 2013 its fine. Otherwise prefer a sorted timescale version. Either slow changing to fast changing yyyy mm dd or fast to slow dd mm yyyy.
Nah, letters bring another complexity - besides with them Feb gets sorted after Dec.
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