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[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ISO 8601 or nothing. Descending order of granularity, keep everything sorted as it should be!

[–] Waker@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My personal preference is DD-MM-AAAA, but as someone that works with lots of data from different formats and timezones... I have to agree with you...

YYYYMMDD and UTC should be the global default.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

annum annum annum annum

[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RFC 3339, because ISO is not free.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me more? I can look it up but I'm curious if anybody ever got problems from using a standard like that

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've said it once and I will say it again:

mkdir -p 2023/{January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,Septembet,October,November,December}

Warning: not POSIX

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Oh my god, why would they do this

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Why no? It will make your life way easier