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Terry Yiu 2y ago

YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

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tanel 2y ago

tell me fast, what date it is

"uhh 2024...January"

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

Uh, sort this list of dates:

5/1/2023

4/5/2025

4/6/2024

3/2/2022

Now the standard makes sense, right?

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tanel 2y ago

5/01/23

fixed

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

lol, that doesn’t fix the sorting problem the YYYY-MM-DD format solves.

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tanel 2y ago

if it's not DD-MM-YYYY, i'm not interested 🤗

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jericho 2y ago

Y’all crazy. Just use unix timestamps.

1704067820

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 2y ago

Ftw!

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1GLENCo 2y ago

Agreed on ISO-8601 format.

https://timestamps.glencooper.com/

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Pickle Dan 🥒 2y ago

I’m gonna start using this format! Thanks everyone!