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𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Japan is on its own wavelength.

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Japan is on its own wavelength.

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𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • pelya@lemmy.world
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    YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.

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      “There shall be no other date formats before ISO8601. Remember this format and keep it as the system default”

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      Largest to smallest unit of time. It just makes sense.

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      ISO 8601, while great, has too many formats. May I introduce RFC 3339 instead?

      https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

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        That is what I love so much about standards: there are so many to choose from.

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          https://xkcd.com/927/

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        YES! I wish more people knew about RFC 3339. While I’m all for ISO 1601, it’s a bit too loose in its requirements at times, and people often end up surprised that it’s just not the format they picked…

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        Huh, I’ve never noticed how much bloat was in ISO 8601. I think when most people refer to it, we’re specifically referring to the date (optionally with time) format that is shared with RFC 3339, namely 2023-11-22T20:00:18-05:00 (etc). And perhaps some fuzziness for what separates date and time.

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      Except the information is given least to most important, making verbal abbreviation difficult. Works great for file names though.

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      The truth. Amen

    • Gregorech@lemmy.world
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      Is that why the military uses that format?

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        In a GMP laboratory it’s 22NOV2023 no ambiguity.

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          deleted by creator

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    ISO 8601 format is the best (YYYY-MM-DD).

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      Came here to say this. I try to name all my docs in the YYYY-MM-DD-descriptive-name.ext format.

    • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.world
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      The only correct format. Least to most specific.

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Used to be my account name on a different website social media aggregator.

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      Best nomenclature for sorting.

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    YYYY-MM-DD in Hungary too, that us shit is totally non logical, i cant get used to it

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      This is literally the most logical method to name a date in text.

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        In what text?

        In French we say “14 juillet 1789”

        We don’t even say “nth day of”

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          In a text like “the research started at 2003-01-24”, or pretty much in any other text where you need to convey all 3 elements.

          I bet you also don’t say “14 07 1789”, because that’s what MM format means.

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            You bet wrong

            We write AND say “La Révolution a démarré le 14/07/1789” or “La Révolution à démarré le 14 juillet 1789”

            Spoken numbered month are usually used in an administrative context, to ease the work of our contact.

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              Oh that’s right, the spoken administrative context. Same in my dd-mm-yyyy county actually. Still, I find it less intuitive than the logical yyyy-mm-dd when understanding written text.

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      Fuckin wait until you hear how many feet are in a mile. You all should’ve waterboarded us harder while we were a young country.

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        FIvE tOMaToeS

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      We do that in Sweden as well. Our social security numbers are that plus 4 unique numbers. The beers I send out to stores have yyyy-mm-dd printed at the bottom.

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    It actually makes sense when you put YYYY/MM/DD in filenames as they will be sorted pretty neat (ex: reports)

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      Yeah for a lot of files you probably would sort by year in the end

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    This meme implies there’s an equal battle between MM/DD/YY and DD/MM/YY, which is nonsense. Much like imperial units, only 'murica uses MM/DD/YY.

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      But 'murica is big.

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        Only slightly bigger than Australia and Western Australia is nearly twice the size of Texas…

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          When talking about cultural mindshare I’d argue that the quantity of people matters more than the space they’ve been packed into

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          Mercator would like a word.

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            Mercator can say whatever it wants, it’s not involved in this discussion.

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    YYYY-MM-DD for everything digital, DD-MM-YYYY for everything IRL.

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    Iso date format. Anything to do with photos is best to have in this format at the start of the filename.

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      It also means that by default it’ll sort by newest

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    I propose the use of MYDYDM format. So, October 15, 2023 will be written as 121350. Just to make it as confusing as possible.

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      Welp. I need a bath now.

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      Amazing

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    TBH, Japanese format makes sense when you use it to name files/directories, as sorting by “name” is equivalenti to sorting by “last modified”.

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      equivalenti

      Love typos that force me to read comments with an Italian accent

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        I’m actually italian, lol, but that was a genuine typo.

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        Free upvotes for both of you

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      Until you need to work across centuries. Then it’s eating paste level.

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    YYYY-MM-DD for files, DD-MM-YYYY for normal use

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      Wtf why

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        Because for 99.99% of all situations, you’d already know what year and month it is, so the most readily available piece of information should be the day.

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          If you already know the year and month why write it. ISO or month day are the two most reasonable. You need to zoom in not give yourself a list of options and then randomly pick one later.

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    Japan wins this one.

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    DD/MM for readability, YYYY/MM/DD for alphabetical sorting that’s also chronological.

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      Ironically, MM/DD/YYYY works better for chronological sorting than DD/MM/YYYY, so long as you don’t go between years.

      Didn’t think I’d be saying this but the Americans have an edge over us Brits.

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        By this logic one might say that DD/MM/YYYY works for alphabetical chronological sort if you don’t go between months…

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        Have another go at this train of thought, mate… You’re basically saying “MM/DD” is better at sorting chronologically than “DD/MM”, since the year part is taken out of the equation, which is already the established consensus, and not ironical whatsoever. And the ISO standard is already to use YYYY-MM-DD, so that’s the winner IMO, hands down. Japan is simply following that but using a slash as the delimiter.

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        When you search or do any stable sort, I would think you want your primary attribute to be the one with most finite values? That way you are front loading the pruning of the search space.

        So it’s actually on favor of Japanese style

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    Japan isn’t on its own wavelength, most of East Asian does this, probably because they all decided they wanted to be like China: which was a government which governed more. https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o?t=1m7s

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    Military be like 23/NOV/2023

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