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Masimatutu @lemm.ee

11 mo. ago • 95%

10/10

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Nothing beats ISO 8601, YYYY-MM-DD

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- RFC 3339! ISO 8601 has way too many weird formats that are allowed like today would be 2023-W41-2. See for example here.
  
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  I feel offended - W%W-%w is my preferred way of noting down dates :D
  
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  Great, now I need to memorize "RFC 3339", because I officially have a new favorite date format. Thank you!
  
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  RFC 3339 when you need the basics, ISO 8601 when you need something more niche. Some applications genuinely need to view the year as weeks and days of the week instead of months and days of the month.
  
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  You say that's weird. As a programmer, this seems insanely useful
  
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- YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00
  
  THE ONE TRUE FORMAT
  
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  Well, the standard provides various formats, such as YYYY-\WWW.
  
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  Does the T just signify that Time starts after it? I've never really examined the full UTC format, YYYY-MM-DD has always been enough for my uses.
  
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  BCE or AD?
  
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- I am fine with any format that puts the month between year and day.
  
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  Same, but MSD->LSD is nice in general for the alphanumeric ordering
  
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- The most logical format, especially for digital files.
  
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- This is the way.
  
  Put the most significant digits first. Always.
  
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- 100%
  
  alphabetical order = chronological order
  
  unambiguous regardless of locale
  
  easy to read/parse by either machine or human
  
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- My head hurts
  
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I remember in high school a friend waited until 10/10/10 to ask a girl out so he'd never forget their anniversary. I think they dated for like a month lol

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- 10/10 plan
  
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  10 percent of the time it works 10 percent.
  
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- Let me guess, instead of asking out another girl on 11/11/11 he played Skyrim?
  
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- It's not a bad idea, that's why I got married on 2/14 so I wouldn't get stuck having to have an extra gift giving holiday.
  
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  i'll say it time and time again:
  
  This format is shit and makes no sense
  
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Too late, it's 11/10/2023 in au now

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- How are you in november already?!?!? ^/s
  
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  Nobody woke him when September ended.
  
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New Zealand: It's the fucking eleventh!

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- gotta love seeing everyone else celebrating something about the date that we are already done with
  
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I don't get why more people don't go biggest to smallest. Makes so much more sense. Especially when listing dates in order. YYYY/MM/DD

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- ISO 8601, BABY!
  
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- That's how it's done in chinese. Imo DD/MM/YYYY is better though, since in practice the year is most commonly just the current year and isn't nearly as important as the day or month.
  
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- Not only that but it is different enough with the year in front that you can assume MM/DD is next. With the other two MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY you are stuck relying on context to fully know what format someone is using. (Unless the day in question is greater than 12.)
  
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- ISO Standard 8601. YYYY-MM-DD.
  
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I would object on general principles, but....

Well...

It ain't wrong lol.

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- It kinda is, not everyone uses the / as separator. In Germany it's 10.10. for example
  
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  I use "-" as the separator usually, but I think they are about equivilant
  
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Damn it! I am one day late.

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10 out of 10 out of 23 are like 100%

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Indonesian here, it's October 11th here.

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Not just Americans https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

But pretty much just Americans

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Unix people today : "NICE NICE"

Unix people today from 20:28:10 to 20:28:20 GMT : "NICE NICE NICE NICE"

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Also looks better if you interpret it as a score than, say, a 9/11.

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- What happened on the 9th of November?
  
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2023-10-10

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Late, but 10/10 is my birthday - since I was born in Europe, raised in the US and now live in the UK, I've never had a problem writing my birthday correctly!

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  Thank you!
  
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Nice

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October 11th, 2023
10/11/23
It's not in order but it's the same order as how dates are normally written.

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- 12th of October 2023 is how dates are written at least in Australia
  
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- Well no, normal people write 11th October 2023.
  
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  Normal people write "11. Lokakuuta 2023"
  
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Once again Europeans assume the rest of the world is identical because Americans are the only ones bothering to correct them.

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- Quick! Name all the countries that use mm/dd/yyyy!
  
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  I didn't even mention date formats. It's only 10/10 using the Gregorian calendar. There's still the Islamic, Indian, Chinese Hebrew, and other calendars in use around the world.
  
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- Not only Europeans, or Americans, or Christians. Most countries use the Gregorian Calendar either solely or additionally to a national calendar.
  
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  TIL Christian is a demonym...
  
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- Name one country thats not in America that uses mm/dd/yyyy.
  
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- To "correct" them
  
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- Americans? You mean usians surely
  
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  Practically no one in the USA would have any idea what such a word would be representing.
  
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- It’s called American Exceptionalism 🇺🇸🫡
  
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