ISO 8601 or bust.
8601 for life
So glad this is the default in Japan. 🇯🇵 😌
So if you communicate with someone you will specify the date in the year 2023 september 23rd we shall meet and not 23rd of september 🧐
YYYY-MM-DD
But we read left to right and the most important part is furthest right hardest to read. It’s convenient for computers sorting alphabetically, but bad for people reading it.
The most important part is the year.
Why? The year changes least quickly, (especially the decade) so you can often infer without needing it.
Because it’s the most significant. If it’s wrong or missing you’re off by much more than if the day or month is wrong.
But that’s good, like a parity check. Because your wrong by much more, it’s easier to tell from context clues. That’s why people abbreviated the year to ‘in 98’ or something like that.
The same reason “one thousand” is written 1000 and not 0001
Because that’s the way it’s said? Dates are spoken day month year. Because you go more specific to more general.
Depends on where you live
yall trippin, it should be MMYYDD
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Tired: ISO date format
Wired: milliseconds since the Unix Epoch
Galactic brain: Planck time units since the Big Bang
Impractical waste of computing power and information storage
Not if you encode it using an exponent. One Planck time unit is roughly 1.8 x 10-43 seconds, so with an exponent of 2128 (roughly 3.4 x 1038) you could write a second as 54510 x 2128 TP
Also almost killed all computing in y2k
yyyyMMddTHH:mm:ss.sss+Z for the win
I always wonder why old memes are losing pixels and quality. Like an old paper shared over the years.
because they get downloaded from say reddit and then reuploaded again a year later or so which since most sites/services compress files uploaded they get worse and worse quality
It’s the modern version of the VHS or cassette tape.
@675 is the best!
To eliminate this confusion I propose the days of the month should start from 13.
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MM/DD/YY Anything else is wrong
