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minus-squareAnnoyed_🦀 🏅@monyet.cclinkfedilinkarrow-up186·6 months agosniff sniff You smell that? They’re coming, the ISO 8601 gang.
minus-squarerobolemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·6 months agoEasily proved to be the best: in every time travel story, the time traveler asks for the date. The unsuspecting drone always responds with DD or MM-DD, and the protagonist has to shout at them “NO! WHAT YEAR IS IT?” Always start with YYYY. I rest my case.
minus-squarejohannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·6 months agoGotta have that good sorting
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up12·6 months agoAnything else is madness. It’s demonstrably the only logical answer.
minus-squarephoneymouse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 months agoDD is day in year, I think dd is what you mean. Also, YYYY is week year, so better to use yyyy. yyyy-MM-dd
minus-squarepelya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months ago%Y-%m-%d in strftime yyyy-mm-dd in Excel and Google Sheets
minus-squareJustas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·6 months agoYMD is primarily used in: China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hungary, Mongolia, Lithuania, Bhutan, Sweden That is one weird country group.
minus-squarethanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoW E A R E I N E V I T A B L E
sniff sniff
You smell that? They’re coming, the ISO 8601 gang.
YYYY-MM-DD OR DEATH
Easily proved to be the best: in every time travel story, the time traveler asks for the date. The unsuspecting drone always responds with DD or MM-DD, and the protagonist has to shout at them “NO! WHAT YEAR IS IT?”
Always start with YYYY.
I rest my case.
Gotta have that good sorting
Anything else is madness. It’s demonstrably the only logical answer.
DD is day in year, I think dd is what you mean. Also, YYYY is week year, so better to use yyyy.
yyyy-MM-dd
%Y-%m-%d in strftime
yyyy-mm-dd in Excel and Google Sheets
YMD is primarily used in:
China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hungary, Mongolia, Lithuania, Bhutan, Sweden
That is one weird country group.
W E A R E H E R E
W E A R E I N E V I T A B L E
Fuck yeah
You’re god damn right
Hell yeah, brother!
Relevant xkcd