How do you format your dates?

[nellanella]

I was raised with mm/dd/yy but now I use yyyy/mm/dd and I will never go back

[C4Warr10r]

With girls. Even now that I'm married, I just leave that ♥♥♥♥ up to my wife. She's like a living schedule organizer. Somehow, she remembers every day, where we were, and what everyone was doing and doing and wearing. She also remembers every day I have something important to do for work. I couldn't tell you the last date of my annual engineer exam. It was in September or something, I forgot, but she reminded me about it constantly.

The only problem, ironically, is that she also reminds me about dates for dinner or movies that I do not remember committing to. 99% of the time. I'm sure that I said "maybe" or "no" and she just took that as a "yes". Then she's late for the same dates she planned. Fashionably late, of course, because it apparently takes hours to make oneself presentable in public, even when I procrastinate.

I learned how to tell time and present a polished uniform in mere minutes during my tenure in the military. There was always a schedule for everything. True to form,in civilian life, I learned that everything actually operates around whatever clock women use. Whatever you're doing, it's ALWAYS on HER time. That's the only time anyone needs, isn't it? And if you cross it, it's global MEAN time. Can every man not set his watch to that?

[Enterprofilenamehere]

We should just write them out as "May 20, 2024" to eliminate any possible ambiguity with dates like "05/06/24". Is that the 6th of May or the 5th of June? This is why I hate when dates are just written out as numbers.

[Xero_Daxter]

Month, day, and year.

Reason why is because for example “May 20th, 2024”. But that’s just me. It’s weird to say “20th May, 2024”.

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Enterprofilenamehere님이 먼저 게시:

We should just write them out as "May 20, 2024" to eliminate any possible ambiguity with dates like "05/06/24". Is that the 6th of May or the 5th of June? This is why I hate when dates are just written out as numbers.

I agree. it will eliminate all the confusion.

[ナルゴ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[Rain :)]

Xero_Daxter님이 먼저 게시:

Month, day, and year.

Reason why is because for example “May 20th, 2024”. But that’s just me. It’s weird to say “20th May, 2024”.

because you don't say "20th May, 2024"

you say 20th of May, 2024

Modern English puts more emphasis on the month first for seasonal context- anyone in any official government work will use DD-MM-YYYY when speaking formally

[BlackBloodGhost]

SnakeFist님이 먼저 게시:

BlackBloodRum님이 먼저 게시:

For real. When you got a ton of invoices from different companies from around the world in a bunch of folders, there's nothing worse than them using a combination of mm-dd-yyyy and dd-mm-yyyy. It creates potential confusion. So it's far better to just use yyyy-mm-dd, simple and no confusion.

What is confusing is the month and day up to a point. 04/05/2024 can mean may 4th or april 5th.

That was my point. Also, think file sorting in general.

If you have mixed formats what you end up with in a ordered file list is:

04-05-2023
04-05-2024
05-05-2023
05-05-2024

Do you know what those dates were?

Let's try with proper formatting:

2023-04-05
2023-05-05
2024-05-04
2024-05-05

Just, make it clear.

/end rants about date formatting around the world.

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BlackBloodRum님이 먼저 게시:

SnakeFist님이 먼저 게시:

What is confusing is the month and day up to a point. 04/05/2024 can mean may 4th or april 5th.

That was my point. Also, think file sorting in general.

If you have mixed formats what you end up with in a ordered file list is:

04-05-2023
04-05-2024
05-05-2023
05-05-2024

Do you know what those dates were?

Let's try with proper formatting:

2023-04-05
2023-05-05
2024-05-04
2024-05-05

Just, make it clear.

/end rants about date formatting around the world.

True.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

hydraulic pressB^)

I used to do MM/DD/YYYY and I made it a point especially just before y2k(and still doing it) to put all 4 digits.
Nowadays I write my logfilenames(of the same log) with YYYYMMDD as the prefix.
Its a system where nothing will get lost, though it might be hard to sift through.

[76561199559798421]

when my date complains at a restaurant i wish they had a quick format button to erase the personality and give me the option to reinstall the operating system.

[AlienTestosterone]

Only my birth year MDCCCXC.

[Kapitein Gnapmans]

I just use the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970, 00:00:00 UTC like all normal people

[Basho]

xuxtobu님이 먼저 게시:

now I use yyyy/mm/dd and I will never go back

thats the superior format, in may ways.
for instance it will sort in order in a data set.
i use dashes though, yyyy-mm-dd

when i can get away with it i like to use 3 letters for the month, so 2072-nov-06 for instance, but only for extra clarity of communication since that format wont sort.

on a hand written note that will go in the trash shortly, i can be ok with dd/mm though if it is a near date someone needs to refer to.

[the vampire of time and memory]

year month day

[Schindler's Lifts]

This is why I can't trust game announcements that just say "Releasing 4/6". Do they mean 4th of June, or 6th of April?