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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 297 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (25 children)

Waiting for the ISO 8601 & 9001 gang to show up and promote YYYY-MM-DD.

Edit: That took seconds, a very punctual bunch.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 112 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Whoo! ISO-8601 fan club!

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

YYYYMMDD, scrub out the excess fat!

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago

That's ... why I'm here

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 days ago (5 children)

RFC 3339 if you please. Let's be prescriptive.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (6 children)

After all the self-important blowhards in the committe were satisified that they had put their fingerprint on the ISO8601 document with bullshit like "year-month-week" format support and signed off, they went home.

The rest stayed behind, waited a few minutes to be safe, and then quickly made RFC3339 like a proper standard.

This is what RFC3339 vs ISO8601 feels like.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Let's not forget that technically you have to pay for ISO8601, despite it being nearly useless as a standard because it allows several incompatible formats to coexist.

Fucking wild.

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[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I’m now imagining a child who must write 2026-05-10T10:06:09.426792Z on all of their tests.

[–] littleonescared@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They should also add a timezone since most of us don't live at UTC zero timezones -> 2012-12-28T18:12:33+09:00

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They did; the Z at the end denotes UTC.

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[–] amlor@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

I’m doing my part!

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 days ago

ISO 8601/RFC-3339 (Unix Epoch also acceptable) gang reporting in.

[–] trijste@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

ISO thirsty!

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 88 points 2 days ago (7 children)

This fucknuts who thinks day should come before year, hah! Give me YYYY-MM-DD, because dashes are better than slashes any day of the week.

[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This format is the best. Especially for digital file names, because sorting the files by filename also sorts them by date.

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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago

ISO 8601 gang.

Represent.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Immediate red flag, we all know that YYYY/MM/DD is the only acceptable perfect date

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 days ago

Agreed. As a nonviolent person, I'm willing to go to war over this. Can't have two files from different years listed side by side because they were from the first day of different months. That's anarchy.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

YYYY-MM-DD if you're doing backup naming, easier to find

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yup, versioned files ALWAYS get a YYYY-MM-DD HHMM timestamp. So when you sort alphabetically, they sort chronologically.

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[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 48 points 2 days ago

iso8601 aka 2025-06-12

[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My time abroad has taught me that YYYY/MM/DD is the way to format dates.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

My time using a computer and trying to have any semblance of organization has taught me the same

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[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is the only acceptable format.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ISO 8601 is clearly much superior due to being delimited.

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For consistency, Europeans should adopt ss:mm:hh DD-MM-YYYY.

See how ridiculous that is? ISO8601 or GTFO

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The european one is sorted based on importance to see. The day is more important than the month which is more important than the year. The hour is more important than the minute which is more important than the second

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[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

You monster

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[–] esc27@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If you use DD/MM/YYYY then logically you should also use ss:mm:hh

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sarcastically Shaking My Many Hydra Heads.

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[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Don't go with this psycho! He mixes European style order with US style punctuation.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is stupid AF.

YYYY/MM/DD

This is the best choice.

/ isn't a valid char in filenames, yyyy-mm-dd is better

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[–] pyrflie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Heretic!

YYYY.MM.DD is the correct format.

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago

small correction: YYYY-MM-DD to avoid common special meanings chars

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (4 children)

For computing or sorting purposes, YYYY-MM-DD is best. But in day to day writing a date, I prefer DD-MON-YYYY.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Single letter for month is too ambiguous - how do you tell apart June, July and January? Also, what do O and N denote?

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 days ago
[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

That's a tough one. I would have to say April 25. Because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.

[–] hacktheegg@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago

I'm fine with anything in the realm of yyyymmdd or reversed, as long as it isn't the confusing format that is common in the USA

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm the only one annoyed about DD/MM/YYYY not being a date, but a date "format"?

Not only it's a recycled joke, it doesn't even make sense.

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