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YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.
Largest to smallest unit of time. It just makes sense.
“There shall be no other date formats before ISO8601. Remember this format and keep it as the system default”
Sorting by date would be so much better with yyyymmdd .
YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSSSSSSSZ
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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
where’s that? somewhere in africa?
/s because apparently it’s not implied
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ISO 8601 format is the best (YYYY-MM-DD).
I like that for files, but not for written documents. When I label things I try to use the most intuitive/least confusing way I can think of: DD mmm YYYY. This comment is posted on 23 NOV 2023, for example.
Came here to say this. I try to name all my docs in the YYYY-MM-DD-descriptive-name.ext format.
I can see some advantages of that.
I’m American though, so YYYY-DD-MM is the best I can do.
When you’re naming a file, you can’t use anything else.
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Its the same for all East Asian countries as well, but I guess slapping
JAPANon it means fast upvotes, like that"Place, Japan"meme.YYYY-MM-DD (honestly without dashes) is the only helpful format.
If you name all your files with this as a suffix then your files automatically sort versions of themselves in order when sorting by name.
Don’t ask how they count the years tho
YYYY-MM-DD should be the main everywhere.
It is in Lithuania
Yeah but half the time is actually: EYY/MM/DD. Like this year is 令5/MM/DD.
And some years have two values, 2019 was both 平31, from 01/01 until 04/30, then 令1 from 05/01 onwards.
Is the kanji the name of the period the year belongs to or something? That looks interesting. Where can I find out more?
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It makes sense to either go general to specific or specific to general. MM-DD-YYYY is neither.
DD/MM/YY and YY/MM/DD are the only acceptable ones IMO. Throwing a DD in between YY and MM is just weird since days move by faster so they should be at one of the ends and since YY moves the slowest it should be on the other end.
I’m not kidding when I ask: are there really a lot of people using MM/DD/YYYY??
Almost 350 million of us morons down south of you.
Using a different date format that means the exact same thing anyway does not make you a moron.
But there are a lot of other things that do 👈😎👈
I hope you mean YYYY, not just YY
Should just burn it all down and do. MM/YY/DD
Maybe to foreigners but they love using the era for the year which doesn’t really help anyone.
What eras do they have/use?
Each emperor (Japan) and Big Change (China), is given a name. You can look up the current japanese era. From a friend, the chinese (and others like Singapore, Macau, Taiwan) are also living in an era with its corresponding year.
These formats are overrated.
MM/YYYY/DDis clearly better.Reiwa era enters the chat
Most of Japanese hates the arbitary currender year resetting at each new emperor enthronrment. The conversion is ass and no one knows when it changes (bound to emperor’s health) . Worst is its official year that govmt body accepts.
What about YY/DD/MM?
