That'll be my last word

The fuck you talking about? It’s 311223!

ISO-8601 dictates 2023-12-31.

I must.
- At least this makes more sense than the American notation.
- Nah bro this is the way. You're doing lord's job.
- Best thing about Japan. Many things go 'largest to smallest', such as
  
  Dates
  
  Names
  
  Addresses
  
  And common use of 24h time time, too.
- This is the way
- Any other method is madness. I think I’m going to make this a requirement in my contracts
Found the Non-American bois!
- The one rare non-american

Everyone else: 311223

It's 231231 where I live
- You live in a digitially organized folder?
No. 2023-12-31 is the only correct representation.

Can't relate. It's 20231231 for me.

Edit: Also this format is superior for file sorting. All files are chronological.

In your time format: 010124 goes before 123123.

You could have 4 files dated: January 01, 2002; June 11, 2001; July 21, 2004; December 31, 2003

In your time format the files would be sorted like this:

It's 2002, then 2001, then 2004, then 2003. What a fucking mess.

In ISO 8601, there's no such issue.

Before you reply saying theres a sort by date feature, yes I know, but file creation date isn't the same as when the data is actually recorded. You could be inputting that data from a piece of paper in 2005 after the data being recorded in the years prior, so the creation dates would all be in 2005. Also, sometimes when copying files, the dates randomly reset. Putting the date in the filename ensures it wouldn't disappear due to OS shenanigans.

Meanwhile Linux (ext4) users are over here sorting by whatever we want.

With ctime, mtime and atime it doesn't matter what you call your files!

I use Arch btw
- Sure, but then you need the correct file property or else nothing works? Since it is usually not my job to create files, I depend on companies to do the job right. But I have some bad news there. Example: DJI names the recordings or pictures you take something like DJI0001.jpg. guess what happens after DJI0999.jpg? That's right, DJI0001.jpg. and don't get me going about random time jumps in the date recorded/taken embedded in the file. Pure cancer. The script to rename the files to YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS looks like shit because of all the special cases you need to consider.
I completely agree. Everyone always asks me why I suffix my filenames with the date like this (or YYYY.MM.DD). But this is so files sure up in correct order when sorted my name. It seems so obvious.
How does that last point work? The ”Putting the date in the files ensures it wouldn’t disappear due to OS shenanigans.”?
- You create a file on 30.09.2010, back it up and lose it due to hardware failure on 12.07.2022. When you restore the file from your backup to your device it will most likely be stamped as created 12.07.2022 even though originally it was created before that. If you name your file manual_2010-09-30.pdf you always know the date it was created and sort it by that filename.
- Example:
  
  Lab_Report_20020101
  
  That's what I always do with files. Windows like to reset your date attributes for some reason. If you copy a file, or upload it to cloud and redownload, there are some cloud services that doesn't save the file date for some reason. Filename always gets saved.

Get out of here with that Freedom date shit

I'm sorry you can't enjoy our freedom dates. I'll pour some of my drink out on the floor for you on New Years.
- *Proceeds to feel proud of stupid thing by engaging in another stupid thing.
- America is less free then Europe

311223 gang.

Ew 231231 is the best.
- that works too

Not here in Germany. SAD!

mmddyy and yyddmm fighting for which is the worst time format ever imaginable

yyddmm is a thing? Damn
- Works great for archives.

Other countries be like:

Listen, non-Americans: We can't help it if your dating system is less fun than ours, okay?

Lol, judging by the number of downvotes, Lemmy users needs to work on their sarcasm detector.
REEEEEEEEEEE

but for real. It's actually more than just knowing it exists, sometimes it's forced upon us from software that isn't localised.

And my lord, excel when one mother fucker has mm/dd/yyyy set in their system settings means it changes the whole goddamned shared spreadsheet and dates are displayed (and thefore sometimes understood) incorrectly until someone notices.

Please, git gud at units USA
- I'm sure it can be a pain in the ass. I wasn't being serious (although a bunch of people apparently took offense).

Retard Units don't count.

If you're Murican, it'll look like that.

Not all of us are Muricans, so the date will actually look like 311223. I just realized that if there's an infinite chain of that number, you'll see the same number twice before going to the next one. That's way better than 123123 (which is just 123×7×11×13).

If you trapped in a computer its 2023-12-31 which is a date and not anything eles.
- Not only for computers, in the basque country dates are written like this too!

Real chads use UNIX time. It's 1690462184 as I post this.

2023-12-31

Sorry guys, been using internet explorer; what's this about the year 2000?

We're all worried about the impending digital apocalypse.
You should build a bunker/shelter that can withstand the apocalypse. (*could still be used later on).

All of those carping about US date notation: Shhh! Let them implode on their Day Of Destiny. It will leave so much more room and resources for the rest of you. And you can work out a whole new balance of planetary diplomacy without them unbalancing it.