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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Sorting by date would be so much better with yyyymmdd .

[–] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] clif@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSSSSSSSZ

[–] Remavas@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

where's that? somewhere in africa?

/s because apparently it's not implied