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What is your idea of perfect date?

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yyyy-mm-dd and confusion no more.

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- This. On top of being obvious at a glance, your file names and folder names sort nicely if use this format.
  
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- Until Y10k rears its ugly head.
  
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  Why is no one talking about this??? Ostriches in the sand...
  
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Good taste, YYYY-MM-DD is obviously superior

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- I too agree with the woman
  
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ISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.

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- Dont know if it's true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.
  
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  My guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.
  
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- I, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.
  
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Why do some people insist on doing big-endian dates? Little-endian (YYYY-MM-DD) is trivially alphanumerically sortable. Also, it’s part of the goddamn ISO standard for standardized date format.

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- Which is why the guy in the comic will "die single".
  
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- You've got your endians mixed up. Big-endian means the most significant value comes first. ISO8601 is big-endian.
  
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The perfect date is YYYY/MM/DD. US and every where else conflict with DD/MM/YYYY & MM/DD/YYYY.

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- Path separators in my date strings? Hell no!
  
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  Sanitize your inputs. Become delimiter agnostic!
  
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ISO 8601

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Unix epoch time. It has a cool name and I get to pretend its a Star Date.

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- Are we on schedule to solve the 2038 problem in time?
  
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yyyy.MM.dd

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09/12_20/30_2024/inf

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- lol this is so cursed, I love it.
  
  Now include time, with tz offsets
  
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Requisite Miss Congeniality bit.

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