dankmCanadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12
str82L I.e. 2024-10-13
Wait, is that the thirteenth of October, or Smarch 10th?
It’s obviously the 10th of Gormanuary.
Why the Calendar Makes ZERO Sense | Dave Gorman | Avalon
I didn’t know it was called ISO8601 but I started naturally using it at work. It removes confusion among international colleagues, makes it way easier to sort data, and is also good for version control of docs.
Me too. It looks quite normal now and, yes, is great for file organisation.
ISO8601 is grat and all, but even without a common standard, I feel it should either be largest to smallest unit, or smallest to largest. YMD or DMY. Anything else is just asking for misunderstandings.
YMD is the way to go, because it auto-sorts on a computer.
Even when you tuck on the time, or would you prefer 59:46:13-14:10:2024 :-) ?
My favourite is when you’re reading documentation for an API or an SDK or whatever and the examples show things like “2024-05-05” as the date where they’re both the same number and you can’t discern it at all. Like, use Halloween or Christmas or something as the date so it’s always obvious, eh?
07/05/09
Unironically a major consideration for me if I was scheduling a C-section.