The perfect date

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  53 comments and I’m the first effusive nerd to bring up unix epoch? Nothing happened before 0 (1970-01-01 00:00:00) anyway.

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  • blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Epoch is signed though, that 1970 date is the midpoint

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• My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YYYYYMMDD

  I prefer to think we’re in the year 12026, since homo sapiens really got things going around 10,000 BCE.

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• Olmai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im more of a Medjool guy myself. Not sure what everyone else is talking about.

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  MM/DD/YY

  It’s an industry standard because it’s everywhere. America, fuck yeah!!!

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  • JamesTBagg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    YYYYMMDD is the ISO standard.

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• khanh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it’s either DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD.

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• Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oogh. Such rage bait.

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• KittyCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re all too ambiguous!

  04-Aug-2026 is the only acceptable format

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love when all my reports are listed by day…

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• msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every fucking time they make him look like a tool.

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He formats dates, how else would he look like?

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  • FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jesus?

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  www.trekterest.com/stardate

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  3 Aug 2026

  You can’t guess wrong.

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  • blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Spanish would write Ago

    The French would write Août

    The Greek would write Αυγ

    Arabic speaking would write أغسطس

    Using words doesn’t seem as universal as numbers.

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good point. This format only works if the reader knows the language.

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What about a UNIX epoch HTML color clock?

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• EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  DD MON YEAR is the only one that’s not ambiguous on November tenth and the like. 10 Nov 2022 is less confusing than either 11/10/2022 or 10/11/2022 and is without a doubt never confusing.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yyyy-mm-dd is an international standard. It’s better because it’s sortable.

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    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When I was doing data entry we did MMM-DD in folders with the year name, as yet another option.

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• pewpew@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Correct opinion.

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• eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s a path I can’t walk buddy, I think it’s better we end it here before we get too attached.

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• Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re thinking to hard. The best way to write a date is Julian. Today is 26216.

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  • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So… this Julian… is he a friend of yours?

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ya know, I really think every language needs to agree on having a distinct month, day, and year marker to completely eliminate all date confusion. And I mean something universal, even if it’s as simple as a sun symbol for days and moon symbol for months, similar to Japanese. Whenever I see a date in Japanese, I am absolutely never confused at all and I appreciate it.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    First we have to chode been Gregorian, Islamic, and Chinese calendar tho.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  February 23.

  Because it’s muh birfday 😋

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @RemindMe@mstdn.social pm 2027-02-23

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Month first is better because when someone says the date aloud, they start with the month “August 5th, 2026”

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• NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish US Americans would do this, but when I try to use it, it’s too ambiguous with our mm/dd/yyyy format that already exists. So, I think the US will have to go with YYYYMMDD. That’s the most straightforward and easy to understand methods of switching to an entirely numeric date sequence that is logical.

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• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Year day month is the only acceptable format.

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    so how’s the murder rate in heathen land

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• Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I meant to say i love month-day-year. August 5, 2026. I love day-month-year too, more than I like month-day-year

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• spitfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same but with dots instead of slashes. Otherwise I can’t be sure it’s the right one.

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “confusing” you’re dumb and/or likely being obtuse

  “Dumb” or “it’s bad” is fine.

  But being confused by stuff you just disagree with has to stop

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  • Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your complaints are confusing.

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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      :(

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• Tarkcanis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That or the reverse.

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• Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it’s like looking into a mirror

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• Willie169@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ISO-8601 or RFC-3339 is the way. It’s not about which is better, but about that it would be confusing to use MMDDYYYY or DDMMYYYY since the other exists.

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• CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Est ante diem X Kalendas Augustus, AUC 2779.

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• successfulgreen126@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  yeah yeah a bit confusing lol

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