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[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 241 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Nothing beats ISO 8601, YYYY-MM-DD

[–] mikazuki@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago (5 children)

RFC 3339! ISO 8601 has way too many weird formats that are allowed like today would be 2023-W41-2. See for example here.

[–] rojun@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

I feel offended - W%W-%w is my preferred way of noting down dates :D

[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheBiscuitLout@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It’s really pleasing seeing the seconds all change in unison!

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great, now I need to memorize "RFC 3339", because I officially have a new favorite date format. Thank you!

[–] msage@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Fortunately this one is easy:

three threes equals 9 3339

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

RFC 3339 when you need the basics, ISO 8601 when you need something more niche. Some applications genuinely need to view the year as weeks and days of the week instead of months and days of the month.

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00

THE ONE TRUE FORMAT

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Well, the standard provides various formats, such as YYYY-\WWW.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the T just signify that Time starts after it? I've never really examined the full UTC format, YYYY-MM-DD has always been enough for my uses.

[–] Flumsy@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The T stands for the timezone.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Aaaah that makes a lot of sense.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am fine with any format that puts the month between year and day.

[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same, but MSD->LSD is nice in general for the alphanumeric ordering

[–] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

The most logical format, especially for digital files.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

Put the most significant digits first. Always.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

100%

  • alphabetical order = chronological order
  • unambiguous regardless of locale
  • easy to read/parse by either machine or human
[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago