Imagine a database, or even a folder with multiple years in it. “Payroll_05-01-2025”. Now all your files are sorted by month. You would have to scroll through “Payroll_05-08-1988”… etc forever before you reach 2025. And when you do, all of 2025 isn’t together. ISO 8601 solves these issues automatically. It’s time to adapt to a better system…
5/1/2025. I’ll die on this hill.
I’ll see you in hell.
I’ll call the coroner.
Fifth January 2025?
Imagine a database, or even a folder with multiple years in it. “Payroll_05-01-2025”. Now all your files are sorted by month. You would have to scroll through “Payroll_05-08-1988”… etc forever before you reach 2025. And when you do, all of 2025 isn’t together. ISO 8601 solves these issues automatically. It’s time to adapt to a better system…
The 5th January 2025, correct.
m/d/y, so wrong by default
5/1/5 ?
Oh please. What’s next? A twelve hour time system with am and pm? Measuring distances in thumbs and other body parts?
Worse: measuring temperatures based on what one guy felt was the coldest it could get in the winter and the hottest his fever would reach.
Don’t be ridiculous, that’s just insane.
To be fair, “thumb” was only a unit in determinating what stick we could beat our wives with.