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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 273 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (24 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 97 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Whoo! ISO-8601 fan club!

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago (3 children)

YYYYMMDD, scrub out the excess fat!

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know. I started using the format with periods back in the 90s, before I knew of the standard, and at this point doing it with periods is muscle memory. That's not meant as an excuse, just an explanation. The excuse is laziness.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago

That's ... why I'm here

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 39 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (2 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 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

While a fucking stupid concept, it's nice that this particular format has a monetary deterrent.

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[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months 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 23 points 6 months 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 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They did; the Z at the end denotes UTC.

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 months ago

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

[–] amlor@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I’m doing my part!

[–] trijste@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

ISO thirsty!

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

It's the only way that makes sense

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 84 points 6 months ago (5 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 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

A true professional. Have an upvote.

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[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 66 points 6 months ago

ISO 8601 gang.

Represent.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 61 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 6 months 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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[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is the only acceptable format.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ISO 8601 is clearly much superior due to being delimited.

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[–] esc27@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 14 points 6 months ago

Sarcastically Shaking My Many Hydra Heads.

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[–] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 27 points 6 months ago

iso8601 aka 2025-06-12

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (9 children)

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

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months 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.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

11-Jun-2025

It's shit format but at least it's better than 11.6.2025 or 6/11/2025

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months 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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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

See how ridiculous that is? ISO8601 or GTFO

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is stupid AF.

YYYY/MM/DD

This is the best choice.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 14 points 6 months ago

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

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[–] pyrflie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Heretic!

YYYY.MM.DD is the correct format.

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 11 points 6 months ago

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

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months 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 10 points 6 months 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 8 points 6 months 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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