!iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org gang, rise up

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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).

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25 points

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

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3 points

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

Why? Because you say so?

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3 points

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

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

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1 point

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

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9 points

nahh f that shit

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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.

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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?

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

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