• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Which drives me nuts! The month doesn’t change for 4 whole weeks! Why is it first? I want the info that contains the most variation displayed first so my eyes don’t have to glaze past useless info every time.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Year/month/day is superior when reading full dates, because it’s the least ambiguous. If I only need day and month, I’d rather use month’s full or shortened name (like 27 Sep). Ambiguity is the real enemy here, not any particular order

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            1 year ago

            I scanned through this and my takeaway is that it’s just defining a formal grammar for iso 8601. Did I miss anything important?

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              1 year ago

              Kind of. As I understand it, ISO-8601 is also super broad and allows for a bunch of different potential formats and I think durations.

              For instance, 2009-W01-1 is a valid ISO-8601 date, meaning 2008-12-31(!) which is pretty weird.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Year-Month-Day is also my go-to for naming files (at least in systems that don’t have file versioning) because it allows Name sort to list things chronologically. Just have every version of the same file have the same name, then append Year-Month-Day to the end.

        I work with a lot of bespoke systems that use proprietary files, so file versioning with something like Google Drive or OneDrive goes right out the window. But Year-Month-Day makes it easy to maintain some semblance of organization.

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      10, 11, 12…the first number doesn’t change for 10 whole numbers! Why isn’t it 01, 11, 21?