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Wow! It actually makes sense! (i.imgur.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If the date format is not YYYY-MM-DD it can fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Everything is right about it:

  • Lexographic sort
  • Unambiguous months and days
  • Acceptable on any document of record (lab, legal, medical, personal)
  • Readable by nearly any culture (even us Americans)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

for storing dates it's awesome, for displaying dates it's time to teach your programmer how to format shit for humans.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ISO 8601. Unironically the only ISO number I also remember.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I also remember as PHP programming language still won't do it with this function: DateTimeInterface::ISO8601 DATE_ISO8601 https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetimeinterface.php#datetime.constants.iso8601

You need the DateTimeInterface::ISO8601_EXPANDED which can actually accept non compliant strings too.

PHP - wherever you see an intuitive solution it's wrong or has important caveats.