Comment by htrayl@lemmy.world on ISO 8601 ftw rule

Meh. It’s getting a lot of hate here, but I think it works well in casual short term planning. Context (July) - > precision (15).

If I want to communicate the day in the current month, I just say the day, no month.

ok but by that logic you’d start with the year

No because the year is a super large time; there’s a reason people always say they take a bit to adjust to writing the new year in dates because it’s s long enough period of time that it almost becomes automatic.

For archiving, sure; most other things, no (logically, ISO-8601 is probably the best for most cases, in general, but I’ll die on the hill that MM-DD-YYYY is better than DD-MM-YYYY).

well either you omit the year, or you start with it

americans start with the month and end with the year, which is totally wild

Everyone starts sentences with a capital letter, you shouldn’t be flinging shit mate 😂

Again, – within most use cases – it really isn’t.

In your day to day, will you need to know the year of a thing? Probably not; it’s probably with the year you’re currently in.

Do you need to know the day of the month first? Probably not unless it’s within the current month so you need to know the month first.

Telling me “22nd” on a paper means nothing if I don’t know what month we’re referring to; and, if I do need to know the year, – well – it’s always at the the of the date so it’s easy to locate rather than parsing the middle of the date, any.

In your day to day, will you need to know the year of a thing? Probably not; it’s probably with the year you’re currently in.

that’s why I said you could omit it. did you read what I wrote?

Yeah; I did. And that’s a short stop for that date being useless in the future, after the short-term use case. That’s more wild, to me, than having the least useful part of the date just be at the end where it’s easily locatable.

well either you omit the year, or you start with it

Why? Because you say so?

Because “context -> precision” is exactly the reason someone earlier gave as reasoning for the American system?

Because it’s consistent that way. Why not is the real question?

Exactly. It would be like reading the minute of the clock before the hour.

the year is a super large time

Not when you’re old… I’ll be 50 this year, they’re flying by.

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