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pooky55@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

What is your idea of perfect date?

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What is your idea of perfect date?

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pooky55@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
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    yyyy-mm-dd and confusion no more.

    • batcheck@lemmy.world
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      This. On top of being obvious at a glance, your file names and folder names sort nicely if use this format.

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      Until Y10k rears its ugly head.

      • WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world
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        Why is no one talking about this??? Ostriches in the sand…

  • Gamma@beehaw.org
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    Good taste, YYYY-MM-DD is obviously superior

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      I too agree with the woman

  • davel@lemmy.ml
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    ISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.

    • thejoker954@lemmy.world
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      Dont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.

      • davel@lemmy.ml
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        My guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      I, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Why do some people insist on doing big-endian dates? Little-endian (YYYY-MM-DD) is trivially alphanumerically sortable. Also, it’s part of the goddamn ISO standard for standardized date format.

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      Which is why the guy in the comic will “die single”.

    • willismcpherson@fedia.io
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      You’ve got your endians mixed up. Big-endian means the most significant value comes first. ISO8601 is big-endian.

  • RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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    The perfect date is YYYY/MM/DD. US and every where else conflict with DD/MM/YYYY & MM/DD/YYYY.

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      Path separators in my date strings? Hell no!

      • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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        Sanitize your inputs. Become delimiter agnostic!

        • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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          I control the date format, why would I choose something that requires additional logic to handle?

          • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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            RedWeasel loaded slashes into your stream today though.

            • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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              This is a discussion about choice of date format, not choice of date parser.

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  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Unix epoch time. It has a cool name and I get to pretend its a Star Date.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      Are we on schedule to solve the 2038 problem in time?

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    ISO 8601

  • minibyte@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creator
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    yyyy.MM.dd

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
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    09/12_20/30_2024/inf

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      lol this is so cursed, I love it.

      Now include time, with tz offsets

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    Requisite Miss Congeniality bit.

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