For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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For me it’s YYYY-MM-DD https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

Also, there is a special place for those people who keep making up new timestamps

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Plus slashes are more likely to be blocked by arbitrary character set validation, and fail. Dashes more clearly distinguish the segments and are more compatible

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And don’t work in filenames. But yes, files being in the same order when sorted lexicographic or chronologically makes me smile.

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Spacing of the letter and fewer clutter is also very good with dashes.

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This is probably the best format and I would concede without question. Cheers!

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I have (minor) beef with ISO 8601. It’s very wishy washy about fractional seconds. It’s like “eh, idc if you use a period or a comma to separate them”

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I sign papers with customers from all over the world, and if I get to sign first and need to add a date, I invariably go for YYYY-MM-DD from ISO-8601. If they go first it’s most often illegible to readers without any cultural context.

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I agree. Plus, if you are naming files in your computer, using YYYY-MM-DD will keep them ordered chronologically by default.

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