ISO 8601 ftw rule

"Europe", as if there weren't several languages in Europe with different date formats per language...

MM ≠ MM !!!

I work with international clients and use 2025-01-26 format. Without it.. confusion.

I use ss/mm/hh/dd/MM/YYYY

t.european

Y'all be riskin it without holocene crypty

SYSM:YY.DM.TzYDY.H.H

4:40.42p EST on Jan 28, 12,025 ->

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That's the one that was active when I started typing. However, I change it randomly using the decay of a radioactive isotope that is randomly chosen by the decay of a separate amount of Uranium-238. I'm two randoms in. This way, my time records are always encrypted using open-science source and the government can't hack the pictures of my parking spots at the oncology center to sell them to the NIMBYs at MetAlphabet AI.

This pyramid visualisation doesn't work for me, unless you read time starting with seconds.

finally a correct version of this diagram

I don't know why anyone would ever argue against this. Least precise to most precise. Like every other number we use.

(I don't know if this is true for EVERY numerical measure, but I'm sure someone will let me know of one that doesn't)

I just use millis since epoch

(Recently learned that this isn't accurate because it disguises leap seconds. The standard was fucked from the start)

Hot take: 2025-Jan-27 is better than 2025-01-27 in monolingual contexts.

All my homies hate ISO, RFC 3339 for the win.

I'm almost 40 and now just realizing my insistence on how to structure all my folders and notes is actually an ISO standard. Way to go me.

YYYY.MM.DD HH.MM.SS, as eru ilúvatar intended

My stupid ass read this top to bottom and I was confused why anyone would start with seconds

How is day smaller than month? There are up to 12 values for month, but up to 31 for days

This is the way.

Maybe in programming or technical documentation, but no, when I check the date I want to know the day and the month, beyond that, it's all unnecessary information for everyday use, and we have it right in Europe.

You can't change my mind. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Mmm US military date and time is fun too.

DDMMMYYYYHHMM and time zone identifier. So 26JAN20251841Z.

So much fun.

I know, why don't we all agree to agree and use every single possible format within a shared spreadsheet

I often have to refrain myself from using ISO-8601 in regular emails. In a business context the MM/DD/YYYY is so much more prevalent that I don't want to stand out.

Filenames on a share drive though? ISO-8601 all the way idgaf

In one work report, I recorded the date as "1/13/25", "13/1/25" and "13JAN2025"

I have my preference, but please for the love of all that is fluffy in the universe, just stick to one format....

i never saw year first in Europe.

DD-MMM-YYYY master race

Why would the year, the least important, need to be first?

And why are the pieces of the pyramid made so the ISO standard is the only one that looks right? ss:mm:hh:DD:MM:YYYY would also order the numbers based on length, but would look terrible if represented like that

This is Belize and Micronesia erasure.

Let's do it!