this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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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)

Whoa, that's a cool website!

[–] 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

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[–] Chunk@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

THE ONE TRUE FORMAT

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

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

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[–] 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
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[–] TesterJ@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember in high school a friend waited until 10/10/10 to ask a girl out so he'd never forget their anniversary. I think they dated for like a month lol

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ScrotusMaximus@lemmy.ninja 28 points 1 year ago

10 percent of the time it works 10 percent.

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me guess, instead of asking out another girl on 11/11/11 he played Skyrim?

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[–] g8phcon2@teacup.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a bad idea, that's why I got married on 2/14 so I wouldn't get stuck having to have an extra gift giving holiday.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (12 children)

i'll say it time and time again:

This format is shit and makes no sense

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no, he got married in the 14th month of the year which doesn't exist, so there wouldn't ever be an anniversary

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I unironically asked myself what happened in February of 2014 at first lmao

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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New Zealand: It's the fucking eleventh!

[–] beanz00_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

gotta love seeing everyone else celebrating something about the date that we are already done with

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too late, it's 11/10/2023 in au now

[–] neumast@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How are you in november already?!?!? ^/s

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Nobody woke him when September ended.

[–] Askingforafriend@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't get why more people don't go biggest to smallest. Makes so much more sense. Especially when listing dates in order. YYYY/MM/DD

[–] octesian@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

ISO 8601, BABY!

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would object on general principles, but....

Well...

It ain't wrong lol.

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[–] Enlarging5805@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago

Damn it! I am one day late.

[–] hdgdlfiuebdtus@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

10 out of 10 out of 23 are like 100%

[–] leap123@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Indonesian here, it's October 11th here.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Not just Americans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

But pretty much just Americans

[–] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unix people today : "NICE NICE"

Unix people today from 20:28:10 to 20:28:20 GMT : "NICE NICE NICE NICE"

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also looks better if you interpret it as a score than, say, a 9/11.

[–] SquareBear@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happened on the 9th of November?

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