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YYYY-MM-DD (honestly without dashes) is the only helpful format.

If you name all your files with this as a suffix then your files automatically sort versions of themselves in order when sorting by name.

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31 points

ISO 8601 baby

Though it ought to be a prefix, not a suffix

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25 points

You mean as a prefix, right?

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12 points

Their assumption is that the filename is the same otherwise e.g. myNotes20231122.txt

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8 points

Oh I see, thanks. Good alternative to final3_release2.

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15 points

Came here to say this, I use DD.MM.YY in day-to-day stuff, but for files it’s either YYYY_MM_DD or YY_MM_DD, the automatic ordering is beautiful

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Yeah this method is superior for digital filing. I can’t imagine the sorting clusters I’d have to go through to find what I want any other way

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