Why is the format not:
2025/4/12
Biggest time frame to smallest time frame (year, month, then day)?
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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Issues with unix paths. I prefer 2025-04-12.
2009, got it
ISO8601 FTW!
2025/4/12
Don't forget leading zeroes, we're not half assing this!
02025/04/012
Both are wrong. The correct way to write the date is YYYY-MM-DD. This is the only way to sort dates linearly in a list. ISO 8601.
It's frustrating that people are so bad at dates that ISO8601 lives rent-free in my head because I constantly have to tell people ;)
Hungarian is close enough
YYYY.MM.DD
I can be OK with that
But not with having elected the Trump of EU
Bro, trump is learning from Orbán if anything Trump is the US Orbán, fuck both of them too
♥️ this is what I decide to use at work. Dots are superior than dashes in my opinion because they prevent line breaks
I like dashes because they work better than dots or slashes for file names.
And, when the context of the year is understood, you can just drop it. At least Japanese does this (and I'm pretty sure Chinese does as well).
You shouldn't do that, because if you're writing it down it means you want to either refer to it later or have someone else refer to it later. The year changes and you're searching for that receipt or email... why set yourself up for failure?
As someone from a yyyy-mm-dd country, you're all wrong /hj
I always use yyyy.mm.dd as my date format whenever I sign and date documents. I also use a pictograph instead of initials. Someone tried to forge a contract edit to try and get out of paying but used the mm/dd/yy format. The moment my lawyer showed this to their lawyer, they settled immediately for the original amount, legal fees, and late payment penalties. Dumbasses.
So I could use a different than usual date format for a document I might want to recall
The situation was more like "Dear lawyer, your clients have committed a federal felony offense and they did it in such a sloppy manner that they didn't even follow our standard document formatting. Drop the suit, have them pay our legal fees and a fine, and we won't inform the US District Attorney and then ask the State Bar of Texas to look into whether you knowingly partook in this scheme".
I'm glad I'm near retirement. These sort of situations chip away at the soul.
What Americans are calling people idiots for saying (day) of (month)? We say it both ways all the time. 4th of July, July 4th... it's not a complicated thing.
It’s like saying USAians don’t have a sense of humour. Some USAians are MAGAt knob heads, some are perfectly reasonable people. More or less like anywhere else.
Coldest take: if any common date format is difficult for you, you're a little bit ridiculous
It's all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don't know which country they're from
November 9 never forget.
Context clues are enough for me, 4/7 times
MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it's very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.
I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to die
Month Day YYYY is fine, because it's unambiguous when the month is spelled out.
YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.
We write it how you'd say it. Outside of holidays or days of remembrance we write it how you say it.
For example today is 4/13/25. April 13th 2025. If you say the 13th of April you're fuckin weird.
And which do you ask more often what month is it or what day is it?
I don't understand how that's relevant?