this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.
"There shall be no other date formats before ISO8601. Remember this format and keep it as the system default"
Largest to smallest unit of time. It just makes sense.
Sorting by date would be so much better with yyyymmdd .
If you have years of files named similarly with the date, you will love the ISO standard and how it keeps things sorted and easy to read.
I have autohotkey configured to insert the current date in ISO 8601 format into my filenames on keyboard shortcut for just this reason. So organized. So pure.
Holy shit teach me your ways how do I do that
Download Autohotkey, and create a new script. Paste these shortcuts into the script and restart the script:
Now, if you type 'ddd' on your keyboard, the current date will be typed out, eg '2023-11-23'.
If you type 'dtt' tgen the datetime stamp will be typed out in YYMMDDhhmm format, eg 2311231012
There are so many cool things you van do with AHK to make your work more productive. For example, rather tgan typing your email address a billion times, add the shortcut:
And then you can type 'add1' and hit space, and your email address will be typed out in full. Of course, the string 'add1' can be whatever you want.
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Much date. Very logic.
Glad I can count my own country, Lithuania, among the enlightened.
EDIT: Source of the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Date_format_by_country_NEW.svg
Which color is which?
(This doesn't consider the separator) Cyan - DD/MM/YY Magenta - MM/DD/YY Yellow - YY/MM/DD The other ones are mixes of those two colors, so e.g. the US is MM/DD/YY and YY/MM/DD (apparently).
Also just noticed I didn't attribute this picture, I'll edit my comment.
Canada threw up their hands and said, "Fuck it, I don't care, use whatever date format you like."
We are ridiculously inconsistent in Canada. I've seen all 3 of the most popular formats here (2023-11-22, 11/22/2023, and 22/11/2023) in similarish amounts. Government forms seem to be increasingly using RFC 3339 dates, but even they aren't entirely onboard.
where's that? somewhere in africa?
/s because apparently it's not implied
Lithuania is one of the Baltic States, conveniently squished between Russia & Belarus to the east and the sea to the west. Across that sea is Sweden. You'll usually see three countries be the parts of this set. Lithuania is the southernmost of these three.
Soo... yes to being in Africa?
/s
I seem to have dropped my /s. But yes.
YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS
Funny thing, in ISO 8601 date isn't separated by colon. The format is "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+hh:mm". Date is separated by "-", time is separated by ":", date and time are separated by "T" (which is the bit that a lot of people miss). Time zone indicator can also be just "Z" for UTC. Many of these can be omitted if dealing with lesser precision (e.g. HH:MM is a valid timestamp, YYYY-MM is a valid datestamp if referring to just a month). (OK so apparently if you really want to split hairs, timestamps are supposed to be THH:MM etc. Now that's a thing I've never seen anyone use.) Separators can also be omitted though that's apparently not recommended if quick human legibility is of concern. There's also YYYY-Wxx for week numbers.
YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS+TZ
RFC3339! It's like ISO8601, but good!
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSSSSSSSZ
This, but all run together.
I write files/reports to disk a lot from scripts, so that's my preferred format.
For file names, absolutely.
When I’m asking what date it is I typically know the current year.
Well la-tee-dah, look at mister not-shitfaced-every-day here, bragging like a big man
I can lie under the table, puking my guts out and still remember the year.
You need more training, son.
Is that why the military uses that format?
Yep, you can easily sort it just because of the ordering. It's a full standard
No. No you can't.
In a GMP laboratory it's 22NOV2023 no ambiguity.
It's alphabetically sortable too. Name backups like this.
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