Why is there no format that gives the month in three letter abbreviation so its clear cut what it means?
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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That's what the us armed forces do. Jun-12-2025
Waiting for the ISO 8601 & 9001 gang to show up and promote YYYY-MM-DD.
Edit: That took seconds, a very punctual bunch.
Btw this is how it’s used in some countries (eg., Hungary, Japan, China, and a few others from Asia). All other date formats are very strange and confusing for us
That's ... why I'm here
I’m now imagining a child who must write 2026-05-10T10:06:09.426792Z on all of their tests.
They should also add a timezone since most of us don't live at UTC zero timezones -> 2012-12-28T18:12:33+09:00
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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.
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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ISO 8601 gang.
Represent.
Immediate red flag, we all know that YYYY/MM/DD is the only acceptable perfect date
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YYYY-MM-DD if you're doing backup naming, easier to find
Or you’re Canadian
Yup, versioned files ALWAYS get a YYYY-MM-DD HHMM timestamp. So when you sort alphabetically, they sort chronologically.
Wrong, not for windows. 1<5<10 there.
That's why you always have the same number of digits. 01 < 05 < 10
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iso8601 aka 2025-06-12
My time abroad has taught me that YYYY/MM/DD is the way to format dates.
My time using a computer and trying to have any semblance of organization has taught me the same
my man!
its really the only option if you're using it for things like file storage.
For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.
Nah they should adopt metric time and nothing else.
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Don't go with this psycho! He mixes European style order with US style punctuation.
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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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