• kkard2
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    1 year ago

    to make things as not confusing as possible, my rule of thumb is:

    • yyyy-mm-dd (yyyy instead of yy ensures that it’s not mistaken for dd-mm-yy) (hyphens can be replaced with underscores)
    • dd.mm.yyyy (yyyy same as above) (really dislike using for filenames, sorting doesn’t work)
    • mm/dd/yyyy (only if there is no other choice) edit: mm/dd/yyyy vs mm/dd/yy doesn’t matter because both make 0 sense already edit2: i forgor to say that yyyy also avoids y2.1k and subsequent issues
    • Benign
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      121 year ago

      The first one you listed is an ISO standard date format, and is the only way to go :)

      • kkard2
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        21 year ago

        if i write a date on paper i tend to go with 2, but yes

    • @droans
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      11 year ago

      I dunno. If the date is between 2001 and 2012, I prefer YY/DD/MM. So August 4th, 2005 would be 05/04/08.