mhoyeThere is an ISO8601 subreddit.
Either this means nothing at all to you, or these are your people.
3Jane Tessier Ashpool@mhoye ok forgive me but why is this better than 24-aug-2025? Non-English spelled months, I guess, and the ability to sort better?
@3janeTA you get internationalization and unambiguous sorting largely for free - 08-10-12 is uninterpretable without a standard, and jfmamjjasond is not a great approach to ordering - but I think the real appeal of it is as a beachhead of stability and comprehensibility in an otherwise insanely complex space manifested solely by human cooperation and I think a lot of people see beauty and necessity in that.
@mhoye I’m mostly working in ISO13485 and a little 14971 so I appreciate standards generally just hadn’t heard of this one. And it took me so long to parse jfmamjjasond that I totally see the point of that being hard!