Lot of talk of numerics only. The problem there is knowing what format the information is in since clearly there are 3 possibilities. Without context and during certain parts of the month you're hosed. Best to remove ambiguity and go with the alpha numeric format.
DD MMM YY (or alternatively YYYY)
11 Aug 2023
Ambiguity gone.
The dashes waste space. You'll know what 20230809 means in context.
Wrote it on another comment, this way it loses human-readable a bit.
I saw these with hh:mm:ss all without keystrokes. That's the worst.
join south africa and (sorta) japan, use YYYY-MM-DD as a default - sorts well, zero ambiguity.. at least until some joker starts popularising YYYY-DD-MM, anyway
Everyone talks big game about the file names but forget how important standardizing on log time stamps is too. When I’m able to pipe a bunch of logs into sort, I get so happy.
This is me but without the dashes. Haha I know l, what’s wrong with me..
But I’ve also started using 10/Aug in emails to make things crystal clear.
Anyway.
No love for DD-YYYY-MM?
Wait are you serious?
Why would you ever not put the month next to the day
filename.`date +%s`This is big pp idea and I like it.
I'm a firm believer of 01 Jan 2023 for everything else
I’ve always used it for everything