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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨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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  • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Unless you’re expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?

    I mean, that’s not an argument for a better system, though; if you’re saying, “Yeah; you won’t be able to contextualize this info. yet until the next bit of info. in 0.2 seconds,” a person can certainly do that but it’s still working-around the inefficiency by retaining the day – which means nothing in any context which requires knowing the month – until you find out which month the day in question is in 0.2 seconds later.

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• sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨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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      • accideath@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That just makes texts harder to read. In my native language, we‘d read 12.03.2026 as „12th 3rd 2026“, not as „12th of march 2026“. My instinct would instantly just read 2026-03-12 as „2026 oh-3 12“. Which, I guess is understandable but not a great flow.
        But I also don’t get your dollar thing. We write it 100€ because that’s the way you read it.

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    • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨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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