Japan is on its own wavelength.

YYYY-MM-DD for files, DD-MM-YYYY for normal use

So its possible to properly sort by date?

DD/MM/YY and YY/MM/DD are the only acceptable ones IMO. Throwing a DD in between YY and MM is just weird since days move by faster so they should be at one of the ends and since YY moves the slowest it should be on the other end.

The only reason they place month as first is because it is fits how dates are read in English, but that’s not a good reason to keep that format.

It’s how it is read in English (simplified) aka american english. Brittish english doesn’t do this nonsense, the talk in the correct format (first of january etc.).

(I’m sorry if i made some mistakes, english is my second language)

I grew up with DD.MM.YYYY. But I think, MM/DD makes sense in everyday usage. You don’t often need to specify dates with year accuracy. “Jane’s prom is on 7th September” – it’s obvious which year is meant. Then it’s sensible to start with the larger unit, MM, instead of DD.

Even in writing you see that the year is always given like an afterthought: “7th September**,** 2023“.

So when you say it out loud you say 7th September, and not September 7th?

I say “The 7th of September” because I was taught British English in school.

These formats are overrated. MM/YYYY/DD is clearly better.

YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.

“There shall be no other date formats before ISO8601. Remember this format and keep it as the system default”

For file names, absolutely.
When I’m asking what date it is I typically know the current year.

Well la-tee-dah, look at mister not-shitfaced-every-day here, bragging like a big man

I can lie under the table, puking my guts out and still remember the year.
You need more training, son.

If you have years of files named similarly with the date, you will love the ISO standard and how it keeps things sorted and easy to read.

I have autohotkey configured to insert the current date in ISO 8601 format into my filenames on keyboard shortcut for just this reason. So organized. So pure.

Holy shit teach me your ways how do I do that

Glad I can count my own country, Lithuania, among the enlightened.

EDIT: Source of the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Date_format_by_country_NEW.svg

where’s that? somewhere in africa?

/s because apparently it’s not implied

Largest to smallest unit of time. It just makes sense.

YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS+TZ

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSSSSSSSZ

Sorting by date would be so much better with yyyymmdd .

YYYY-MM-DD should be the main everywhere.

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