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if you standardise one thing, what is it and why

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beaubbe@lemmy.world
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Date formats. Can never tell if dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy, yyyy-mm-dd…

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mommykink@lemmy.world
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Only way I’d do it is by pissing everyone off. DD/YYYY/MM

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EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
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how about YYMDMDYY

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ShayKStage@programming.dev
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YMDYYDMY

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TauZero@mander.xyz
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The yyyy-mm-dd format (ISO 8601) is the only one that is unambiguous, because no one so far in history has ever used the yyyy-dd-mm format (at least until some xkcd-reading jokester probably will start using it just out of spite). I use ISO 8601 everywhere. It has the additional benefit that filenames get sorted correctly in lexographical order.

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