My time abroad has taught me that YYYY/MM/DD is the way to format dates.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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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.
YYYY-MM-DD if you're doing backup naming, easier to find
Yup, versioned files ALWAYS get a YYYY-MM-DD HHMM timestamp. So when you sort alphabetically, they sort chronologically.
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iso8601 aka 2025-06-12
Waiting for the ISO 8601 & 9001 gang to show up and promote YYYY-MM-DD.
Edit: That took seconds, a very punctual bunch.
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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ISO thirsty!
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
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For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.
For consistency, Europeans should adopt ss:mm:hh DD-MM-YYYY.
See how ridiculous that is? ISO8601 or GTFO
The european one is sorted based on importance to see. The day is more important than the month which is more important than the year. The hour is more important than the minute which is more important than the second
But in any given situation where the month is important enough that I need to know it, I want to know the month regardless of the day. The 25th means fuck all to me unless I know the month, as well; whereas there are plenty of scenarios where I want to know the month but the day isn't quite as important.
Usually if someone just says the 25th that means of the current month. The month only needs to be referred to if it's not the same as the current. (In conversation)
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At least ss:mm:hh and DD-MM-YYYY are internally consistent, even if they aren't consistent with each other.
MM-DD-YYYY isn't even internally consistent.
You monster
Nah they should adopt metric time and nothing else.
ISO 8601 gang.
Represent.
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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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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Immediate red flag, we all know that YYYY/MM/DD is the only acceptable perfect date
Actually YYYY-MM-DD is better since it can be used basically everywhere and with / it can't be used in filenames
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Heretic!
YYYY.MM.DD is the correct format.
small correction: YYYY-MM-DD to avoid common special meanings chars
rfc3339 my beloved
Don't go with this psycho! He mixes European style order with US style punctuation.
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For computing or sorting purposes, YYYY-MM-DD is best. But in day to day writing a date, I prefer DD-MON-YYYY.
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