ISO 8601 ftw rule

“Europe”, as if there weren’t several languages in Europe with different date formats per language…

None of which start with the month because that would be fuckin stupid

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

Keep that kinda talk up and you’ll go straight to tariff!

This pyramid visualisation doesn’t work for me, unless you read time starting with seconds.

A pyramid is built bottom to top, not top to bottom. That’s also one of the strengths of the ISO format. You can add/remove layers for arbitrary granularity and still have a valid date.

Yeah, but people read top to bottom. The best way to do it would be to have upside down pyramids. With the biggest blocks at the top representing the biggest unit of time (YYYY) and the smallest blocks at the bottom representing seconds & smaller.

What do you think this is some sort of pyramid scheme?

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I get it, just pyramids are misleading, also year-month-day is better because resulting number always grows. 😺

A bit out of context, but is your username and instance a reference to nescafe?

2025-01-26T11:40:20, you mean?

Hold on there pal that time zone is ambiguous. Did you mean 11:40:20 UTC? If so, don’t forget your Z!

I work with international clients and use 2025-01-26 format. Without it… confusion.

That’s an ISO date, and it’s gorgeous. It’s the only way I’ll accept working with dates and timezones, though I’ll make am exception for end-user facing output, and format it according to locale if I’m positive they’re not going to feed into some other app.

I’m almost 40 and now just realizing my insistence on how to structure all my folders and notes is actually an ISO standard. Way to go me.

I stumbled upon it years ago because sorting by name sorts by date. There was no other thought put into it.

It’s incredibly annoying that in clinical research we are prohibited from using it because every date must comply with the GCP format (DD mmm yyyy). Every file has the GCP date appended to the end.

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.

Rule: You must post before you leave.

^other ^rules

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