Waiting for the ISO 8601 & 9001 gang to show up and promote YYYY-MM-DD.
Edit: That took seconds, a very punctual bunch.
Hello I’ve arrived
Whoo! ISO-8601 fan club!
YYYYMMDD, scrub out the excess fat!
I use periods. YYYY.MM.DD
I know. I started using the format with periods back in the 90s, before I knew of the standard, and at this point doing it with periods is muscle memory. That’s not meant as an excuse, just an explanation. The excuse is laziness.
Best excuse
Same here but not in the 90s. Since discovering the standard I have switched though.
If only there were some international standards organization to make a decision for us!
I’m now imagining a child who must write
2026-05-10T10:06:09.426792Zon all of their tests.They should also add a timezone since most of us don’t live at UTC zero timezones -> 2012-12-28T18:12:33+09:00
They did; the
Zat the end denotes UTC.My point was not everyone is just at UTC zero but sure Z is also a timezone.
Most people communicate mostly with people in the same timezone’s, partially because most countries only have one timezone.
It’s a flexible standard.
2026-05-10T10:06:09.426792Z,2026-05-10 10:06:09.426792Z,2026-05-10 10:06:09.426792, and2026-05-10all conform to the standard.
I’m doing my part!
ISO thirsty!
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ISO 8601/RFC-3339 (Unix Epoch also acceptable) gang reporting in.
It’s the only way that makes sense
Hello from Hungary ! We should also democratize the Surname GivenName format
Szia. We should indeed.
o7
Anyone that gives me a document or receipt or invoice with a date formatted DD-MM-YYYY should have a tire iron swung at their thighs
Multiple swings if they can’t decide on using DD-MM-YYYY or MM-DD-YYYY or DD-MM-YY or MM-DD-YY or YY-MM-DD or YY-DD-MM
I rather have somebody write their invoices at DD-MM-YYYY cause there is a bigger chance it will most likely not be an invoice from a North American company which notriously cannot make proper invoices and most software that actually scans and processes invoices is based on the European standaard DD-MM-YYYY or on ISO8601.
YYYY-MM-… well, ya know the deal…
As a big ISO 8601 guy myself, I request explanation of this 9001 addition? Never heard of it till now and am optimistic
Quality Management Systems, unsure what it has to do with 8601, but guess the fanboy venn diagram overlaps
Seconded. Not coming up with much when trying to find out more about it.
sup
DD-MM-YYYY-HH-MM-SS
Makes no sense!
I prefer the alphabetical date format
DD-HH-MM-SS-mm-yyfor maximum confusionWere you mostly joking or is there a utility to this? Genuinely curious as someone that finds confusing things slightly more memorable in a really backwards way
Yes I was joking, get a random timestamp in this format and you have no idea what it’s referring to.
DD:HH:MM:SS:mm:yyis even better because it could be a MAC address.
This fucknuts who thinks day should come before year, hah! Give me YYYY-MM-DD, because dashes are better than slashes any day of the week.
This format is the best. Especially for digital file names, because sorting the files by filename also sorts them by date.
A true professional. Have an upvote.
I prefer YYYY.MM.DD, because the dots look aesthetically pleasing when the date is being displayed within the vincity of a clock displaying the time digitally.
When i first read a date, i want to see the thing that changes 74 times in my entire life first too
HA! if you even get to be 74!
But in some jobs the year is more important (bookkeeping/accounting) and doing YYYY-MM-DD automatically sorts your dates
YYYY-MM-DD obviously has uses, especially with sorting, but that doesnt make it the objectively best date format
No I agree, hopefully we can all agree that the MMDDYYYY is the worst date format
Yep. Months must always be in the middle
ISO 8601 gang.
Represent.
YYYY-MM-DD if you’re doing backup naming, easier to find
Yup, versioned files ALWAYS get a YYYY-MM-DD HHMM timestamp. So when you sort alphabetically, they sort chronologically.
“Apologies, Jason. It’s you & not me.
You’re just the opposite of the man I could ever want to spend the rest of my years with.”
Or you’re Canadian
iso8601 aka 2025-06-12
My time abroad has taught me that YYYY/MM/DD is the way to format dates.
thank you for spreading the good word
My time using a computer and trying to have any semblance of organization has taught me the same
my man!
its really the only option if you’re using it for things like file storage.
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is the only acceptable format.
Nope, it clearly should be mmsshhMMDDYYYY
For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.
For consistency, Europeans should adopt ss:mm:hh DD-MM-YYYY.
See how ridiculous that is? ISO8601 or GTFO
At least ss:mm:hh and DD-MM-YYYY are internally consistent, even if they aren’t consistent with each other.
MM-DD-YYYY isn’t even internally consistent.
The european one is sorted based on importance to see. The day is more important than the month which is more important than the year. The hour is more important than the minute which is more important than the second
You monster
Nah they should adopt metric time and nothing else.
Don’t go with this psycho! He mixes European style order with US style punctuation.
Standard in Australia. And common in the UK (it’s traditionally a dot, but slash is more common now).
But I’m team ISO-8601 when there’s a chance of an international audience. At least where locale information can’t be used.
common in Belgium, probably other countries too
US style punctation?
I mean slashes
/instead of colons.Talking of colons, both of those “formats” are pulled from one
That’s not a colon. Both are commonly in use in Europe. USA just switched the d/m
Ohh
If you use DD/MM/YYYY then logically you should also use ss:mm:hh
SMH…
Or just use ISO8601 whi uses hh:mm:ss and well it is an ISO standard, but at least DD:MM:YYYY makes more sense than what Americans are doing.
Also 4th of july …
No, because in most cases the most important information about a date is the day, then month, then year. It also matches the way we read dates. For the time it’s typically the hour, then minutes, then seconds. YYYY/MM/DD is better when naming files, but in UIs I much prefer DD/MM/YYYY, it’s just more natural to the way we read.
For computing or sorting purposes, YYYY-MM-DD is best. But in day to day writing a date, I prefer DD-MON-YYYY.
11-006-2025 ?
11-Jun-2025
It’s shit format but at least it’s better than 11.6.2025 or 6/11/2025
11-Jun-2025
What if the day in question isn’t a Monday?
Excuse me but !iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org .
Heretic!
YYYY.MM.DD is the correct format.
That’s a tough one. I would have to say April 25. Because it’s not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.
I’m fine with anything in the realm of yyyymmdd or reversed, as long as it isn’t the confusing format that is common in the USA
