YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Largest to smallest unit of time. It just makes sense.
"There shall be no other date formats before ISO8601. Remember this format and keep it as the system default"
Sorting by date would be so much better with yyyymmdd .
YYYY-MM-DD:HH:MM:SS
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSSSSSSSZ
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
YYYY-MM-DD (honestly without dashes) is the only helpful format.
If you name all your files with this as a suffix then your files automatically sort versions of themselves in order when sorting by name.
Military be like 23/NOV/2023
YYYY-MM-DD should be the main everywhere.
It is in Lithuania
When you're naming a file, you can't use anything else.
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.
I'm not kidding when I ask: are there really a lot of people using MM/DD/YYYY??
Almost 350 million of us morons down south of you.
Using a different date format that means the exact same thing anyway does not make you a moron.
These formats are overrated. MM/YYYY/DD is clearly better.