Comment on The perfect date

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yep and it needs to use hyphens and not slashes. It helps avoid missed typos or mis-reads in some situations, especially if hand-written.

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  • froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    and it’s perfectly sortable

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      oh yeah. There are numerous benefits to the format itself, outside the question of hyphens vs slashes.

      I find the sortability quite satisfying, but also as somebody living in the US, I also like that it’s unambiguous regardless of my audience. Hell, half the time I see people hand-write a date on something they don’t even use a year.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There are also variants with single dots too. I sometimes do timestamps without any separator too, depending on the context (such as file backups): YYYYMMDD in example 20260805.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I actually used to do single dots in my own file/folder names. It’s probably my favorite way visually, since it’s a minimal separator and as you showed it works without a separator at all.

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• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ISO 8601 my beloved

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  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS+zzzz

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In fact the Linux date command even has an iso flag: date --iso-8601

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    • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      date -Is my beloved.

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