“Europe”, as if there weren’t several languages in Europe with different date formats per language…
None of which start with the month because that would be fuckin stupid
Meh. It’s getting a lot of hate here, but I think it works well in casual short term planning. Context (July) - > precision (15).
If I want to communicate the day in the current month, I just say the day, no month.
*15th
ok but by that logic you’d start with the year
No because the year is a super large time; there’s a reason people always say they take a bit to adjust to writing the new year in dates because it’s s long enough period of time that it almost becomes automatic.
For archiving, sure; most other things, no (logically, ISO-8601 is probably the best for most cases, in general, but I’ll die on the hill that MM-DD-YYYY is better than DD-MM-YYYY).
well either you omit the year, or you start with it
americans start with the month and end with the year, which is totally wild
well either you omit the year, or you start with it
Why? Because you say so?
Because it’s consistent that way. Why not is the real question?
Because “context -> precision” is exactly the reason someone earlier gave as reasoning for the American system?
Again, – within most use cases – it really isn’t.
In your day to day, will you need to know the year of a thing? Probably not; it’s probably with the year you’re currently in.
Do you need to know the day of the month first? Probably not unless it’s within the current month so you need to know the month first.
Telling me “22nd” on a paper means nothing if I don’t know what month we’re referring to; and, if I do need to know the year, – well – it’s always at the the of the date so it’s easy to locate rather than parsing the middle of the date, any.
In your day to day, will you need to know the year of a thing? Probably not; it’s probably with the year you’re currently in.
that’s why I said you could omit it. did you read what I wrote?
Everyone starts sentences with a capital letter, you shouldn’t be flinging shit mate 😂
nahh f that shit
Exactly. It would be like reading the minute of the clock before the hour.
the year is a super large time
Not when you’re old… I’ll be 50 this year, they’re flying by.
Keep that kinda talk up and you’ll go straight to tariff!
This is Belize and Micronesia erasure.
I use ss/mm/hh/dd/MM/YYYY
t.european
Let’s do it!
MM ≠ MM !!!
This is the way.
DD-MMM-YYYY master race
Don’t you mean: “Right there! Stop you, I’m going to.”
Yoda-ass date structure.
What day, of what month, of what year is it? It’s ordered by importance dammit!
…looks more like i’m you, gonna right, stop there…
25th of July, 2024 is confusing?
There’s no ambiguity with the format, since it’s impossible to mix up month and day
yes, when the month is written non-numerically (and the year is written with four digits) there is no ambiguity.
but, the three formats in OP’s post are all about writing things numerically.
In some contexts, writing out the full month name can be clearer (at least for speakers of the language you’re writing in), but it takes more (and a variable amount of) space and the strings cannot be sorted without first parsing them into date objects.
Anywhere you want or need to write a date numerically, ISO-8601 is obviously much better and should always be used (except in the many cases where the stupid formats are required by custom or law).
No. But 2024, the 25th of July is clumsy both spoken and written.
July 25th, 2024 is okay but gives off middle child vibes.
25th of July, 2024 is ordered small to big, rolls off the tongue and when written nicely seperates both sets of numbers for ease of readability.
The only other alternative I will accept is Julian dates. Today is Day 26 of 2025.
July 25th, 2024 is okay but gives off middle child vibes.
The fuck does that even mean? This is literally how people speak dates out loud.
It means it gives off middle child vibes. What more do you want?
People round these parts say the day first, then the month. Anything else is attention seeking middle child vibes.
Wrong format. DD.MM.YYYY.
That’s what my work uses
I often have to refrain myself from using ISO-8601 in regular emails. In a business context the MM/DD/YYYY is so much more prevalent that I don’t want to stand out.
Filenames on a share drive though? ISO-8601 all the way idgaf
I know, why don’t we all agree to agree and use every single possible format within a shared spreadsheet
Oh god it’s so true…
This pyramid visualisation doesn’t work for me, unless you read time starting with seconds.
2025-01-26-11-40-20
I get it, just pyramids are misleading, also year-month-day is better because resulting number always grows. 😺
A bit out of context, but is your username and instance a reference to nescafe?
Not really but now that you mentioned it, it will! 😄
That’s an interesting coincidence
2025-01-26T11:40:20, you mean?
Hold on there pal that time zone is ambiguous. Did you mean 11:40:20 UTC? If so, don’t forget your Z!
I mean 11:40:20 in what NodaTime would call a “LocalDateTime”. i.e., irrespective of the time zone.
(And incidentally, if you’re working in C# I strongly recommend the NodaTime library. And even if you’re not, I strongly recommend watching the lectures about dates and times by the NodaTime developer, who demonstrates a way of thinking about dates and times that is so much more thoughtful than what most standard libraries allow for without very careful attention paid by the programmer.)
Yeah
A pyramid is built bottom to top, not top to bottom. That’s also one of the strengths of the ISO format. You can add/remove layers for arbitrary granularity and still have a valid date.
Offene Feldschlacht betritt den Raum
Yeah, but people read top to bottom. The best way to do it would be to have upside down pyramids. With the biggest blocks at the top representing the biggest unit of time (YYYY) and the smallest blocks at the bottom representing seconds & smaller.
Hot take: 2025-Jan-27 is better than 2025-01-27 in monolingual contexts.
The beautiful part of 2025/01/27 is that it can inherently be sorted without formatting.
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I’m almost 40 and now just realizing my insistence on how to structure all my folders and notes is actually an ISO standard. Way to go me.
I stumbled upon it years ago because sorting by name sorts by date. There was no other thought put into it.
It’s incredibly annoying that in clinical research we are prohibited from using it because every date must comply with the GCP format (DD mmm yyyy). Every file has the GCP date appended to the end.
How is day smaller than month? There are up to 12 values for month, but up to 31 for days
obvious troll is obvious
It’s sorted by the length of time, so a day is shorter than a month.
i never saw year first in Europe.
You’re reading the post backwards.
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