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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s worse, the American standard is mm/dd/yyyy.

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  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I go by yyyy/dd-mm:ww because I’m special

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• accideath@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When naming files that need to be alphanumerically sorted, yyyymmdd it’s absolutely what anyone I know will use. But in writing or language, mmddyyyy is the way to go. You start with the most gradual denominator, since it’s the most important and you sometimes skip the larger ones because they can be evident

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You start with the most gradual denominator

    So, the year. YYYY-MM-dd.

    and you sometimes skip the larger ones because they can be evident

    So, skip the month: dd-MM-YYYY.

    There’s no scenario in which MM-dd-YYYY makes more sense. Unless you’re expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?

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  • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d much rather have consistency. If yyyymmdd is the best solution for file names, it’s the best across the board.

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    • accideath@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How do you say it though? „It’s the 2026 March 12“?

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      • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Writing and speech don’t need to be the same. You can say “March 12th, 2026” while writing it as either (all numbers) 2026-03-12 or (as spoken) “March 12, 2026”. Just like you might write “$100”, even though you’d never say “dollars one hundred”

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      • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Here in the states we use short hand usually. So your date would just be stated as, “March 12th”. Long format would start off as, “in the year 2026 AD/CE…” which is usually done in things like proclamations by local governments for naming a specific day in someone’s honor.

        For previous and current dates, people definitely use mmddyyyy and I don’t like it. I would much prefer to use something along the line of star-dates from star trek time expressed in years only: 2026.19178 (March 12 00:00). This fixes the need for leap years/days/seconds in calendars and instead dates become accurate.

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• LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh boy, never look up big / little endian in computers

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  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Both big and little endian make some logical sense, unlike the US date format which instead is like the middle endian (in)famously used by the PDP-11.

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  • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I seem to remember that architecture code is done little endian, and the network stack is big endian. Then there is bi-endian, which I have no clue how that works.

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• urandom@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They don’t use ddmmyyyy, but mmddyyyy

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