pooky55@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 9 days agoWhat is your idea of perfect date?lemm.eeimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down112
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minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down2·9 days agoISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.
minus-squarethejoker954@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 days agoDont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoMy guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.
minus-squarexmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·9 days agoI, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.
ISO-8601 / RFC-3339 is clearly superior, but at least DD/MM/YYYY has a rational ordering, unlike MM/DD/YYYY.
Dont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.
My guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.
I, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.