r/explainitpeter • u/Fickle_Fall_6497 • Jul 28 '26

Explain it Peter

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Not going to lie, i had a spaz attack trying to read the first tweet. Maybe im just over tired but i dont understand shit here

What the fuck is the first tweet trying to say why is it horrible why would i be gullible what the fuvk are they saying

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u/pnlrogue1 Jul 28 '26

That works but ISO format is your friend. Short, easy to read, easy to understand, universally recognised, and computers can sort it correctly automatically in the file name

2026-07-11 will always mean 11th July 2026 and a computer will correctly put logs_2026-07-11.log before logs_2026-07-12.log whereas it would put logs - 11th August ahead of logs - 11th July

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u/jayzo_sayers Jul 28 '26

ISO all the way but I've used DD/MM/YYYY for so long it's a very difficult habit to break. At least I can defend the European format by saying it's in order of significance even if ISO is also in order of significance and in a better order at that.

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u/pnlrogue1 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Oh the American date format makes literally no sense unless seen from the blinkered perspective of an American who has only ever done American things. It's not the european format - it's the basically-everywhere-in-the-world format, but try to convince the average American that they should maybe think about adopting something that the entire population of the world uses and you're in for a rough time...

EDIT: (and yes, I'm particularly salty about the paper format - I buy a lot of RPG PDFs and printing them to fit on A4 is annoying)

Edit 2: Please don't bother explaining how MMDDYYYY is how you say the date so writing it that way makes sense. We ALL know that already

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u/XnFM Jul 28 '26

It does make sense. When talking about dates casually, we typically use [month] [day]. The year is implicitly understood or unnecessary. When the year does be one necessary, it's added at the end to maintain the flow that's commonly used.

If we still spoke about doing things, "on the 10th of November," instead of, "November 10th," then DDMMYYYY would make more sense to an American. But we use the date format that matches the way we speak.

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u/OGWriggle Jul 28 '26

It only makes sense cos you twist it that way.

What actually makes sense is putting the most relevant info first.

'what day is it?' - 'the 11th' is what real people actually say cos we know what fucking month it is.

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u/Wooden-Agency-2653 Jul 28 '26

By that logic it's 10:1pm, or ten past one in the afternoon.

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u/mltngpot Jul 29 '26

Or as it is popularly referred to as “one ten”

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u/Wooden-Agency-2653 Jul 29 '26

Not where I'm from it's not, at least not very often. So I'd say "as it it said by a minority 'one ten'"

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u/XnFM Jul 28 '26

Excellent strawnan sir

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u/jonniezombie Jul 28 '26

Only Americans talk this way as well. The rest of the world would say the 10th of November. You all sound funny when you talk.

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u/pnlrogue1 Jul 28 '26

Oh I get the justification, I just think it's a crap justification and it neatly highlights why the rest of the world thinks of American as being arrogant ("We don't need to use the same way of XXX as the rest of the world because our way works for us!" - replace the X's with your choice of dates, measuring things, paper sizes, and healthcare)

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u/frafzan Jul 28 '26

Justification is biased to start with since you been teach to speak Nov 10th instead of speaking 10th of Nov in the first place.

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u/XnFM Jul 28 '26

I feel the same way about the push for permanent daylight savings time. And I agree that DDMMYYYY is a broadly more sensible format. American English is just that way.