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Jan 2, 2020 7:12 PM
KrugerSchmidts
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A bit late but still some time left for this meme
dmay1210
The year now Is 2020. Wish my vision was the same.
deechill
The only date format I will date is 2020/12/30
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
Remember, kids; god saves a kitten everytime you use ISO 8601 <3
dough4you
Today is a palindrome 20/1/02
burnin8er31415
Why not just Jan/1/2020 so that no one gets confused ?
sirlapins
364 days to the end of decade
IcyLucario
As an American, Day/Month/Year makes more sense.
RulesOfImgur
I know we do stuff weird here In the US but we are trying.
MollyNapQueen
But it's 2020-01-03.
ohrightinthedink
Oh yeah?!? Well up yours, you limey bas...oh, wait...it's a joke! Ha-ha! Jolly good show ol' chap...
DYLANLEE79
yyyy.mm.dd how I name files.
ChrisMorray
Files makes sense that way. Anything else though...
DigiT00l
Is 3-1-20 already
thanatos777
YYYYMMDD is the one true date format, fight me.
OBx2
Ideal for sorting.
justlittleoldme2020
Personally looking forward to 02/02/2020
Rkfinecake
Safebox36
Can't wait for 20/2/20 at 20:20:20.20
BunkerJohn
SirsSir
Jokes on you its 1/2/2020
SirsSir
or 2/1/2020
BeanMugged
It's February already!? I didn't realise my new years was that much of a blinder!
Chromentor
Prefer YYYY-MM-DD myself.
SoraHjort
As defined by ISO 8061, the international standard for Time Exchange.
evilpsych
2020/01/01 fucknuggets
KarenFromTheHOA
Use dashes instead of slashes, shithead. But otherwise yes, you're right.
evilpsych
Nope. I’ll use underscore just to piss you off
KarenFromTheHOA
Use line breaks
greywarden112358
Today's star date is 73469.9
ilhares
As a Trek-loving dork, I believe you will find this is incorrect.
greywarden112358
I used some offical looking calculator thing, but it did say that they started counting from the beginning of the show you're probably right
LenzKist74
The best feckin' way is month NAME etc. March 25th 2029. Sure, it's longer but there's ZERO ambiguity; it works both sides of the Atlantic.
KarenFromTheHOA
You know that there are languages where the first month isn't called January, right? Yet Arabic numerals are universally accepted? Yyyymmdd!
LenzKist74
Too often there's: YYYY/MM/DD - BUT - there's also YYYY/DD/MM = ambiguity. Just name the feckin' month & number the days (i.e. st, rd, th).
KarenFromTheHOA
No one uses yyyy/dd/mm. They'd be murdered if they tried.
ler0yjenkins
TheLoyalVike
Let them speak. Such is Freedom.
SojurnShadows
Us Americans aren't wrong, we're just "different". Okay?!?
Miskyavine
Day-Month-Year is best
Redisia
Best? No... 'best' is an opinion... but it is easier to read thats for sure.
DarmokAndJaladWhenTheMemesFell
It's ass-backwards from a sorting perspective. YYYY-MM-DD is most-to-least significant digit, like numbers.
Barrum
2020-01-02 is the superior date format, as it makes dates chronological when sorted alphabetically
BallDoctor
Agreed. Although any format is better than the nonsense the Americans do. Been in the states nearly 15 years and it still bugs me.
Camelspotting
More chronological and in ascending magnitude, what's so bad about that?
GrandProtectorDark
People who try to argue that you sort by amount, as "there's more days than months", which is stupid btw.
BallDoctor
Lol that's like a calendar with the days of the week arranged alphabetically.
Camelspotting
That would be a slightly better system. What's funny about that?
BenSnow97
Camelspotting
I'm trying to teach my cat but he won't listen. Any tips?
InternalErection
Nope, it’s 1/1/19 according to everything I signed at work this morning....shit....
xFattyx
Me tooo haha
primse
Hahahahahaha!
Vesane
I accidentally wrote 2/2 (today is 3/1)
ButteryButtsButterflyCups
Get on my level, i still accidentally write 2008
TerraDactyl89
Our accounting system that's older than I am said it was 01/01/1920 today. Can you time travelers give any advice for the next century?
MeetMyCuteQuotaNow
I got the 2019 confused with 19xx, and called it 19-20-20.
DevilDolly
I actually got in trouble for that today, I handle medical claims for a living and I kept writing 1/2/2019. I felt/feel fucking stupid
DrunkQuokka
Its 12/33/2019, or 33/12/2019 if you're being reasonable
Rkfinecake
Me too. In fact there's a check I mailed this morning I'm pretty sure will be returned...
LurkerOfDarkness
A check, in the post... in 2020?
vizeroy42
That's the USA for you where money transfer is often adding significantly to the paid amount... checks are cheaper.
Rkfinecake
It's for trash pickup. The only other way to pay is to walk to his house and hand deliver it. As far as added fees go, that's mostly with>
Rkfinecake
governmental entities to pay taxes or fines.
LogicAndEmpathyOverGod
Yep I wrote 1/2/19 on all my contracts today, at least the customers made the same mistake when they signed. Fixed it tho
floxsyu
SHIT I sent so many fuckin emails today. Im for damn sure that i labeled dates wrong.
LariCheltsy
Y2K19
pgdave
yyyymmdd.hhmmss is the only correct way
MediocreExtremist
ommit the dot
gruffy321
This is the way
Charcharm
Yes! Organizing folders in your PC using this makes so much sense.
OneBoredS2Mook
DDhhmmTMMMYY is best.
repurposedschleem
Really? I do ymdhmsymdhms
DarkUranium
BenSnow97
unix timestamp or bust
mindstorm8191
To avoid confusion, I started using dot notation, for example 2020.01.29
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
If you're implying using ISO 8601, then use dashes; YYYY-MM-DD -- If not; what are you doing?
mindstorm8191
If I want to use my own date-time format, I can. Doesn't matter if you understand it or not. (Actually, I never use it anymore *shrugs*)
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
Knock yourself out. But remember, god saves a kitten everytime you use ISO 8601 <3
rollercostarican
as much as that makes sense. I *usually* only need to retrieve things that span over the past Few weeks or months. So seeing the month 1st
rollercostarican
is the quickest/easiest on the eyes For me to just scroll to and Find what i need For my work stuFF.
virtia
8601 dates will always have the most recent thing at the top/bottom of the list, depending on sort order. MMDDYYYY nonsense leads to
virtia
losing junk ambiguously in the middle around month borders.
rollercostarican
Sort order isn't the issue, my issue is my easily quickly finding my specific numbers, I like the numbers I'm looking for to be the first 2
rollercostarican
And then once I get to the area I can specify the next two, having the years first has me basically just looking at the 5th and 6th number
primse
ddmmyyyy is the most correct.
KarenFromTheHOA
False.
Mack1986
Year month day works best for computers when they sort things.
primse
Thanks.
Cheomesh
No. ISO 8601 states that YYYMMDD is the correct format.
LocalZoophile
YYYY-MM-DD dashes not optional
Cheomesh
I GOOFED
KarenFromTheHOA
I'm okay with dropping the dashes when space is tight and they might be confused with other nearby use of hyphens or subtraction.
KarenFromTheHOA
P.S. the dashes ARE optional.
Perfzilla
nope because yyyymmdd puts stuff in chronological order using an alphanumeric sort
KarenFromTheHOA
It's also unambiguous.
primse
Thanks.
Perfzilla
Also there's an ISO standard about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
primse
OK, now you're just making me sexually aroused.
pgdave
Maybe for displaying, but not for storage, retrieval, and sorting.
BenSnow97
even for displaying it's stupid, it takes literally no more effort to use yyyymmdd
primse
Thanks.
Donvah
The calendar of Zuul is the only way
tomedgerry24
Perfzilla
today is 20200102
MediocreExtremist
the only correct notation
MyBigMouth
Found the Japanese
hungrybookworm
or Hungarian
HurricaneShade
ItsNotASchoonerItsASailboat
Found the programmer
iamthisguy247
Thehoffmiester
I'm looking forward to 20200202
Perfzilla
Lambast
This is the way.
Metals4J
Agreed, 2020-01-02. I label all my files with dates at the beginning in this format to keep them in chronological order.
HugoArtemisRune
Same here.. I do the human date formatting on the front end and keep the workings clean.
DarkUranium
I just do ISO date formats on front end. Nobody's complained yet.
HugoArtemisRune
Some of my staff are.. Careless? Having plain text keeps the errors down.
CriticalMinne
Is that some sort of new language? Trinary?
ItsNotASchoonerItsASailboat
YYYYMMDD is standard for programmers
CriticalMinne
I agree but there is still soo much randomness in code I see. It's annoying.
TheKnightOfThirteen
Absolutely correct! Any files or database entries should be in YYYYMMDD format so that sorting numerically is also chronologically. 1/
TheKnightOfThirteen
But hand written or purely human readable should be DD Month YYYY, because that it leaves no ambiguity and easier to read than just numbers.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
+1, -1. IF you want to enhance quick decoding (especially cross-format readers), use YYYY-MMM-DD (e.g. 2020-JAN-01) - closer to ISO 8601!
Perfzilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez90azx4LKk
Barrum
False, yyyy-mm-dd is the superior format, as it accomplishes both goals
TheKnightOfThirteen
That ends with people mixing with yyyy_mm_dd and yyyy/mm/dd, and also used 2 additional characters which could be used for other information
MalNebiros
In what system are 2 additional characters a problem where it isn't better to use a short and 2 bytes or some built in date type?
TheWhiteBarry
This is the way
shadefang
The place that fails is everyday use, where it's quite common to only need the day, or day and month.
nihiltres
2020-01-01; ISO 8601 or bust.
MOTHERFUCKINGALLAH
International standard? I don't need to follow that
rzlprnft
I would upvoted you twice if i could
greggbert
All hail 8601!!!!
zebulorg
SELECT GETDATE()
Taktical1
SELECT DATEADD(YEAR, +1, GATDATE())
Safebox36
God bless the ISO standards!
Hextator
I don't even bother with the hyphens. 202001030134 right now
nukem950
And funny enough, without any separators, I can still read it. Also, go to bed (unless you have a reason to be up).
Hextator
I'm -6. That was UTC time (though my sleep schedule is definitely broken right now and I will probably be up in 6 hours too).
lbargomancer
I've never understood why no one wants to record the date as if it wasn't just another number--the smallest increments go at the end.
Redisia
NobodyWorthThinkingAbout
I checked with Azathoth. Universal dating is second-minute-hour-day-month-year-century. Watch out for 48.13.23.15.3.45.20.
deechill
That’s the only date format that is easily sorted and/or understood easily ! Screw MM/DD/YYYY
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
ISO 8601, BITCHES!
dooms7
I hate that I know that standard
amishjosh
this guy gets it
iamthisguy247
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
SirVG
kawkamawaq
TweakerTheBarbarian
Tralinlu
Worked for a company that named everything "3JAN20" and such. Their folders were a nightmare to navigate.....
TweakerTheBarbarian
Saiphel
Literally
Xedi22
So much this.
eotty
Soon it will be 20200202
VagrantKoba
An Ai, or a robots nightmare
Xirema
Thanks I hate it
ZiomalZParafii
Groundhod day! (and my birthday ;)
jeffois
01JAN20
KarenFromTheHOA
Unrelated text followed by January, day 20. There is clearly no year listed, as that would be a FOUR digit number.
PianoMan2112
01 JAN 2020
TheIronSavior
Strictly speaking, 2020-W01 started three days ago...
Safebox36
It's why some games and sites crash on New Year's. The internal clock detects a negative date (31-12-19 to 1/1/19) and gets softlocked.
SoraHjort
The Week Year Calendar is also supported by ISO 8061, though it's generally for things like bookkeeping, finances, and what not.
TheIronSavior
And my favorite part is the lexicographic order is the same as the chronological order!
loth1c
DD/MM/YYYY or DD/MM/YY... the only acceptable choice
KarenFromTheHOA
Using two digits for the year is NEVER okay in any system.
ZiomalZParafii
Nope
someguy7734206
In Hell.
OmniXBro
How dare you come into an ISO 8601 standard thread with this culturally ambiguous substandard format?
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
DarkUranium
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
DarmokAndJaladWhenTheMemesFell
2020-01-01 if it's something that's going to be sorted by a computer. 2020-Jan-01 if it's going to be read by a human.
KarenFromTheHOA
Some languages don't call it jan, but everyone accepts 01. To be truly international, use numbers only.
CrabbyBlueberry
Nobody ever puts yyyy-dd-mm, so yyyy-mm-dd is unambiguous. The dashes and the four digit leading number a dead giveaway.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
Context for the downvoters: this technique is _extremely_ useful for quick decoding if you work with both MM/DD and DD/MM colleagues/clients
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
And is also a useful segue to try and convert/"stealthily train" people to use ISO 8601.
PianoMan2112
Also sortable when stored as plaintext
KarenFromTheHOA
Okay, sure. Yyyy month dd is fine for making it painfully obvious to the heathens. Yyyy-mm-dd is better, though.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
That is exactly the two points I am making.
zanoii
An English speaking human maybe. Not all languages say month before day. In my language and I assume most Germanic ones it is “1st January”.
Gronsak
Are you implying that a germanic language speaker would want it to be yyyy-dd-mm?
GrandProtectorDark
Here we use DDMMYYYY
zanoii
Of course not.
Gronsak
I was getting worried there for a second, that way lies the road to madness ^^
GrandProtectorDark
I politely disagree. All of them should be written as Number, not date
DarmokAndJaladWhenTheMemesFell
I politely disagree. If I wrote 2020-01-02 in my notes, my UK colleagues would read it as "2020, 1st of February." Spell out the month to /1
DarmokAndJaladWhenTheMemesFell
2/ avoid confusion over which one is the month.
zander111
I'm afraid that isn't how it works. Yyyy-mm-dd is international convention and recognised globally. And will be accepted by UK 1/2
zander111
Universities unless they have a format they have specifically asked for. In which case that is a university preference and not convention2/2
rzlprnft
Then take the chance and educate your UK guys! All for a better tomorrow without those stupid freedom units
technicalfool
Or be unambiguous, and stupid avoidable things are less likely to happen, no matter whether you're big-endian, little-endian, or US-endian.