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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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Same but with dots instead of slashes. Otherwise I can’t be sure it’s the right one.
other formats are confusing
Good luck sorting anything by date!
Y-DDD-MM
It is currently 6-004-08
YYYY-MM-DD
Yep and it needs to use hyphens and not slashes. It helps avoid missed typos or mis-reads in some situations, especially if hand-written.
and it's perfectly sortable
oh yeah. There are numerous benefits to the format itself, outside the question of hyphens vs slashes.
I find the sortability quite satisfying, but also as somebody living in the US, I also like that it's unambiguous regardless of my audience. Hell, half the time I see people hand-write a date on something they don't even use a year.
MM/DD/YY
It's an industry standard because it's everywhere. America, fuck yeah!!!
YYYYMMDD is the ISO standard.
ISO 8601 or gtfo
The one that ends us with f... I mean ISO 8601 of course
For organizing my stuff I use yyyy/mm/dd because in my opinion it's much better for that. Otherwise dd/mm/yyyy.
I proper shit post would have suggested “mm/dd/yyyy”.
The problem is not the format itself, its just sometimes we don't know which format is used: 07/07/26
Edit: This was probably a bad example, because it does not matter which format, as it is clear it is 7th of July 2026 in both possible formats. A better example: 01/02/26
Obviously that's February 26th 2001
You are so evil! :D
it's either DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD.
4/Aug/2026
Already saw 1 person write 4/7/26. Writing that 3-4 letters for the month both solves the day/month vs month/day issue, and the off chance someone makes mistake of the month number
Yeah, this is how I do it. Computers are more than capable of handling the three-letter abbreviation for months nowadays, versus some bygone era where perhaps we needed just numbers. This is how I date anything that I need to out a date on.
You're all too ambiguous!
04-Aug-2026 is the only acceptable format
I love when all my reports are listed by day....
Oogh. Such rage bait.
yeah yeah a bit confusing lol
FAIL
yyyy-mm-dd
This is the answer. So easy to sort.
Yep. Doing that joke and landing on anything but ISO-8601 would be a huge red flag for me.
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We grew up on MM/DD/YYYY but all our computer stuff is YYYY/MM/DD however now that we live in EU we use DD/MM/YYYY and still YYYY/MM/DD for files in pc
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