I'm a systems guy. ISO8601 or die. Whomever decided to put the most significant digits at the end of MMDDYYYY can get fired. From a cannon. Into the sun.
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When I try to enter a date in excel and it formats it as numerical 424523 or some shit smh
Tab completion approves of this naming scheme.
Makes a lot more sense as it gets easy to sort files that way.
Gotta love well sorted items.
Unix epoch for life! 😂
I always have written my dates this way. It's one of those things that always seemed weird to me and then when I realize that only in America do we write our dates MM-DD-YYYY /facepalm
I find that it's better than confusing month and day and going insane when dealing with both American and Bri'ish clients
Seeing as I do a lot of AV editing I use this format to keep track of Audio files I do production on. YYYYMMDD Filename Version. It's often a case of working on a file and coming back to it weeks or months later, and in most cases there are multiple versions and revisions as I collaborate with my production partner.
It helps me keep track of the timeframe, what it is and which version so I can ensure rendered versions I'm using in other directories or as assets in other files are consistent and up to date.
The directories got quite messy and confusing initially until I adopted the ISO date format for this case.
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