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You're thinking to hard. The best way to write a date is Julian. Today is 26216.
So… this Julian.. is he a friend of yours?
Ew.
yyyymmdd
other formats are confusing
Good luck sorting anything by date!
AKA typically the single most relevant reason to record one at all. But yes. Most people prefer to begin by thinking about the least significant piece of information, and then go from there.
Date format has nothing to do with sorting by date.
Y-DDD-MM
It is currently 6-004-08
The one that ends us with f... I mean ISO 8601 of course
I proper shit post would have suggested “mm/dd/yyyy”.
For organizing my stuff I use yyyy/mm/dd because in my opinion it's much better for that. Otherwise dd/mm/yyyy.
Same but with dots instead of slashes. Otherwise I can’t be sure it’s the right one.
it's either DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD.
FAIL
yyyy-mm-dd
Yep. Doing that joke and landing on anything but ISO-8601 would be a huge red flag for me.
This is the answer. So easy to sort.
Being able to sort numerically and have it also be in chronological order is sooo cool.
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MM/DD/YY
It's an industry standard because it's everywhere. America, fuck yeah!!!
YYYYMMDD is the ISO standard.
4/Aug/2026
Already saw 1 person write 4/7/26. Writing that 3-4 letters for the month both solves the day/month vs month/day issue, and the off chance someone makes mistake of the month number
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ISO 8601
As for why it's better:
- It's in sort order. Even if you use it for things that don't understand dates, they sort properly because the day is the last part, month is the middle part, and year is the first part. If you include hours, minutes or seconds, the sort order is still preserved.
- Speaking of things that don't understand dates, because there are no slashes, you can easily use it in file names, directories, and anything else that treats slash as a special character. In addition, if you include the time part, because it uses "T" to separate the date and time, it doesn't use a space, so once again it can be easily used anywhere where a space might cause issues.
ISO is better for archiving and sorting, inarguably so. But dd-mm-yyyy is better for day to day daily life usage, where the day and month are much more important than the year.
Both have their uses, but for different situations. mm-dd-yyyy is just batshit though.
But dd-mm-yyyy is better for day to day daily life usage
Uh, no.
It literally just depends to what you are used to.
Yes, ISO-8601 is objectively better than YYYY/DD/MM or MM/DD/YYYY or other strange formats. But, because it isn't the most widely used format, it can be less efficient when there's no danger of MM/DD vs DD/MM confusion.
If person A is talking to person B and they're from the same culture, some culture-specific version like DD/MM/YY might be easier for them because it's what they're both used to, even if it is objectively inferior. But, if person A is talking to person C who is from a different place/culture things get more challenging because if the day of the month is 12 or under, it's hard to distinguish between DD/MM or MM/DD. Even if person C knows that person A comes from a place that does DD/MM, they don't know if person C used the native DD/MM format they're used to, or translated it to them to MM/DD because person A was trying to make things easy for person C.
One of the advantages of the hyphens in ISO-8601, aside from them working with files, is that hyphens in dates are less common than slashes, so if someone sees 1212-11-12 they're more likely to understand that it's an ISO-formatted date. If they see 1212/11/12 it might be a MM/DD date or a DD/MM date.
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Oogh. Such rage bait.
You're all too ambiguous!
04-Aug-2026 is the only acceptable format
I love when all my reports are listed by day....
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
Please use any kind of separation character or I'm gonna lose my mind
It's easy once you get the hang of it
Best I can give you is a single "_"
202609041006_15
Most evil place to put it.
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But you'll end up with months instead of minutes!
We grew up on MM/DD/YYYY but all our computer stuff is YYYY/MM/DD however now that we live in EU we use DD/MM/YYYY and still YYYY/MM/DD for files in pc
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