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  • 494 points Eva-Rosalene

    YYYY-MM-DD

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    68 points Bleeerrggh

    šŸ‘†šŸ»

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    106 points Dpek1234

    I think this sub MAY be a bit biased

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    47 points diamondsw

    I prefer "sensible". As someone who has worked in global companies across date systems, it's the only way to ensure everyone interprets a date the same way.

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    4 points qurtzalcoatl

    Until you meet that one guy you want to hammer their head in with a Mayan calendar.

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    16 points HomicidalRaccoon

    What makes you say that? 🤭

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    17 points RadomRockCity

    YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

    Perfection

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    13 points rb3po

    I mean, duhhhhh. Who wants to catalog things out of chronological order??

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    3 points Haringat

    Also fine, but all other formats are just weird.

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    3 points [deleted]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 crowd represent

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    1 points TexZK

    🄰

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    -10 points D0CT0R-0F-A11

    I prefer YYYY-MMM-DD

    As in 2025-OCT-09

    It feels completely unambiguous.

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    9 points kaspa181

    Yeah, until you see 2025-SPA-09 and alike

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    8 points georgehank2nd

    Tell me you're american without telling me you're american.

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    6 points Any-Aioli7575

    I can't stand when Google does that. It's language dependent. And when you do it in my language you get stuff like 2025-JUI-09. Cool. So is that Juillet or Juin? And this is a real problem that I faced multiple times with this format, despite the format being not that common. If the format requires Anglophones to think about speakers of other languages, it's not a good format.

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  • 85 points antek_g_animations

    Mom said it's my turn to repost that meme

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    15 points McBurger

    Fine, but make sure to give me a nibble of some more of the pixels first

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  • 46 points belabacsijolvan

    r/MoldyMemes

    the noise ratio is strong with this one. if you wanna help entropy, crop a couple pixels before reposting

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    2 points Hagigamer

    Or maybe even screenshot it.

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  • 64 points Gravco

    Heresy!

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  • 26 points Fruitflap

    I was about to make a comment about YYYYMMDD being superior until I realised it was posted in ISO8601 šŸ˜

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    16 points CitroHimselph

    YYYYMMDD is still superior.

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    15 points Fruitflap

    My point was that I would be preaching to the choir.

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    -1 points 5p4n911

    But if no one else is there...

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  • 14 points maximegg

    This meme is so old, it's triggering my dust allergies

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  • 19 points YeahlDid

    That's a red flag.

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  • 6 points sellera

    That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.

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  • 6 points SheriffRoscoe

    April 25th.

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    3 points ubeor

    All you need is a light jacket!

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  • 6 points MISTERPUG51

    When programming, I prefer YYYY/MM/DD. It makes it easy to sort in a simple program.

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    43 points power_of_booze

    So would YYYY-MM-DD, wich is ISO8601

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    10 points _JohnWisdom

    facepalms everywhere, HOW HARD CAN IT BE?!

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    1 points dluminous

    I use YYYY.MM.DD in all my documents. Am I a villain?

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    9 points _JohnWisdom

    Not a villain, but deserving of capital punishment for sure

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    3 points J_FK

    Chaotic good

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    3 points BeefyIrishman

    Use MM-DD-YYYY, jail. Use YYYY-DD-MM, jail. Use YYYY.MM.DD, believe it or not, straight to jail.

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    29 points Masterflitzer

    dude if anything use it correctly: YYYY-MM-DD

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    2 points lila-clores

    if they're programming, then its most likely YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD or separate variables for each. The slash is probably cuz its written out like this.

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    8 points mittenciel

    If you're programming, you should generally prefer hyphens as slashes are used as directory separators and hence thorny in filenames.

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    1 points lila-clores

    yeah, going through the trouble of escaping those slashes is just not worth it. besides, hyphens look neat.

    But I think slashes are pretty common for dates when written down, though i have no idea where it comes from

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    1 points Masterflitzer

    sure, but i was referring to how he wrote it out, it's almost provocative to use the wrong separator despite being in the iso 8601 sub

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    9 points 7LeagueBoots

    For anything that requires keeping records for more than a single month this is the only rational approach.

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    2 points OrganicBid

    When programming I am sometimes met with CYYMMDD. That is, 1997 => 197 and 2025 => 225. Once upon a time I am told bytes were very expensive.

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    1 points LabCat5379

    I’m going to school for programming, I’d assume most mid-high level languages have some kind of date and time object that abstracts the internal formatting away from the programmer. What language are you using, and how do you store that?

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  • 1 points ipogorelov98

    MM.DD.YYYY

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  • 1 points 3Five9s

    It's only confusing if you're intellectually deficient.

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  • 0 points PavaLP1

    As long as the day is at the end or the beginning I'm happy. And yes, even DD-YYYY-MM is fine for me.

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  • -2 points tejanaqkilica

    "can be confusing really"?

    Shouldn't it be, "can be really confusing" or "can be confusing, really"?

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