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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 189 points 2 years ago (7 children)

sniff sniff

You smell that? They're coming, the ISO 8601 gang.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 152 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

Easily proved to be the best: in every time travel story, the time traveler asks for the date. The unsuspecting drone always responds with DD or MM-DD, and the protagonist has to shout at them “NO! WHAT YEAR IS IT?”

Always start with YYYY.

I rest my case.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

Gotta have that good sorting

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago

Anything else is madness. It’s demonstrably the only logical answer.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DD is day in year, I think dd is what you mean. Also, YYYY is week year, so better to use yyyy.

yyyy-MM-dd

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[–] lemmydripzdotz123@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

W E A R E I N E V I T A B L E

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 years ago
[–] JPJones@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

You're god damn right

[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah, brother!

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] melooone@feddit.de 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I prefer RFC 3339. It allows you to omit the "T" for example. Like this: 1985-04-12 23:20:50Z

[–] sxan@midwest.social 10 points 2 years ago

Either is preferable to the abomination in the meme.

[–] gornius@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Imo, the more strict the format the better. Less ambiguity == less confusing when it doesn't work and easier parser to write.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Today is 2024, January 24.

It looks perfect. Although my only concern is if we should use the preposition "in" (since the year comes first: "in 2024") or "on" (because we say "on January 24").

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's great when organizing something in a database. You can just do A to Z ordering and it works just fine.

However visually it's not very good because it puts the least important piece of information first and the most important piece of information last. I probably know the current year so it doesn't need to be that prominent, and I'm fairly certain that it's going to be sometime this millennium, so I don't need the date to four digits.

[–] blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It's entirely depend on the time frame range of your data. If it's wide it rapidly becomes useful to see the year first. In general I like to put 'larger' group variables in tables from left to right, helps in a similar way.

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[–] mathematicalMagpie@lemm.ee 42 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Always write largest to smallest. That way it can be sorted easily starting with the year, then month, then day.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or as computer people say, big-endian.

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

We should all just write it in ISO 8601

[–] PR3CiSiON@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Largest to smallest? So should I write December 02, 2024 as 2024/12/02? And then February 12, 2024 as 2024/12/02?

/s

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[–] HeckGazer@programming.dev 28 points 2 years ago

I bet you write your time as ss:mm:hh you silly little guy, you small to large clown you. Break up with him babe, you can do better

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

2/2/0/3/0/1/2/4 <- Today's date in this obnoxious format

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Pure beauty.

[–] example@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

looks better when you remove the slashes

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Curious why you didn’t go for DYMYDYMY.

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine not using milliseconds since Jan 1 1970 GMT

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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BoisZoi@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Bill Shats. Master and Commander of the Deathstar Galactica.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's add more granularity, like hours and minutes:

MM:HH DD/MM/YYYY

wait...

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Little-endian number formats are the only way to go in the year 4202.

[–] venoft@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Back in the 2000's it was way more confusing. The appointment is on 10/09/11, when the hell is that?

[–] ammonium@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

11 am on the 10th of '09. Month, millennium, century and month are free to choose by the reader.

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[–] jessca@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago
[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

TIL that I am a member of a gang.

The ISO 8601 gang.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

YYYY-MM-DD everything else is wrong.

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[–] rsh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

Logical? So if we use the same logic for money, that big mac will be $17.5

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