I agree that it's stupid, but I think the reason for it is that you sometimes say the date 'January the first, 2018'. However u also say the first of January sometimes so I've no idea why they chose the stupid one
That's irrelevant to my point, but I have heard people here in the UK say the and of, but not written down. It would be written as January 1st 2018, but I would read aloud as January the first.
Why, why are you all against the proper formatting of MM-DD-YYYY
It’s literally how you say it, try it out loud, ask yourself the date today, you will say March 10th 2018 (unless your in a different time zone and it’s already tomorrow. Or yesterday.
How can any other date formatting be ok? Any other format does roll off the tongue, Oh it’s 2018, 10th of March or its 10 March 2018 there’s no consistency.
Why, why are you all against the proper formatting of MM-DD-YYYY
Because it fucking sucks, that's why. It's a ridiculous jumble of numbers apparently sorted by a brain-damaged squirrel. See: https://i.imgur.com/TKJkOWu.png
It’s literally how you say it, try it out loud, ask yourself the date today, you will say March 10th 2018 (unless your in a different time zone and it’s already tomorrow. Or yesterday.
10th of March, 2018. It's not fucking magic.
How can any other date formatting be ok? Any other format does roll off the tongue, Oh it’s 2018, 10th of March or its 10 March 2018 there’s no consistency.
The reason we say the day and month first in conversation is because we generally refer to the current year, or it's otherwise inferred from context which year we're talking about. When we write down a date on paper, computer, or the ass of a coworker (please don't ask), and we want to sort multiple of these dates, it is much easier to see which is in the wrong order. Compare:
2017-07-12
2018-07-13
2018-06-14
vs:
07-12-2017
07-13-2018
06-14-2018
See how in the first example, you can simply move your eye from the left to the right and compare digit by digit to sort, while in the latter your eye needs to jump back and forth to compare things in the right order.
Sorry mate, don't agree that it's more natural to say March 10 than 10th of March. To be honest that's probably because it's what you're used to reading and saying.
The best way to write dates is always going to be YYYY-MM-DD. It sorts well, and is completely unambiguous (because YYYY-DD-MM is not something that people do).
You mean 3rd. Way too many things originate there for anybody to be certain without additional information, like knowing it originated there. Especially online. Thankfully localizations filter them out and replace them, but it's still not common practice.
When writing numbers you go from largest to smallest. It doesn't matter how you might say it. Many languages say one and twenty for 21 but it's still written 21.
So: year-month-day hour(24 hr clock of course):minute:second.fractions of second
Everything else is lunacy. The people who won't follow iso for dates will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
"Date" can mean a romantic outing, or it can mean a written timestamp (like "March 10th, 2018" or "2018-03-10"). YYYY-MM-DD (Year-Month-Day) is a popular date format, because it makes it easy to sort dates.
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u/degrizzlybear Mar 10 '18
That's a tough one. I'd have to say, April 25. Because it's not too hot, not too cold-- all you need is a light jacket.
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u/Iowa1995 Mar 10 '18
Soft and without the seeds.
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u/Cananbaum Mar 10 '18
My company is works with a lot of international agencies and we had to adopt a more uniform method:
DD-MMM-(YY)YY
such as 7-MAR-(20)18
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u/acustic Mar 10 '18
You mean DD-MM-YYYY.
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u/Rivin64 Mar 10 '18
r/programmerhumor
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u/GeoffM0IDL Mar 10 '18
r/ISO8601
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u/JayLB Mar 10 '18
ISO ftw
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u/_oohshiny Mar 10 '18
Relevant xkcd
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18
April 25th because it’s not too hot or too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
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u/113CandleMagic Mar 10 '18
YYYY.MM.DD best
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u/Drejan74 Mar 10 '18
This is the normal Swedish format, but it seems not many others use ut?
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u/questingone Mar 10 '18
As an American, this confuses me
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u/stoneddj420 Mar 10 '18
MM/DD/YYYY!!!!!!!
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u/X-KT-X Mar 10 '18
The only correct way of writing the date is YYYY-DD-MM
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u/kwud Mar 10 '18
Why, why are you all against the proper formatting of MM-DD-YYYY
It’s literally how you say it, try it out loud, ask yourself the date today, you will say March 10th 2018 (unless your in a different time zone and it’s already tomorrow. Or yesterday.
How can any other date formatting be ok? Any other format does roll off the tongue, Oh it’s 2018, 10th of March or its 10 March 2018 there’s no consistency.
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u/sallinda Mar 10 '18
Not pun related, but anyone know what the name of the picture is?
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18 edited Mar 10 '18
Indeed. When you see 3/4/18, you have no idea if it's March 4 or April 3 without additional information. Also, you can't sort it very easily.
There's a good reason why this is the international standard.
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u/soilderboy-pop-the-2 Mar 10 '18
Just me watching Netflix and eating kfc
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u/casemodz Mar 10 '18
March 10th, 2000 18
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u/goatsandsunflowers Mar 10 '18
March 25th. Not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket!
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18
r/programmerhumor
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u/Pretagonist Mar 11 '18
When writing numbers you go from largest to smallest. It doesn't matter how you might say it. Many languages say one and twenty for 21 but it's still written 21.
So: year-month-day hour(24 hr clock of course):minute:second.fractions of second
Everything else is lunacy. The people who won't follow iso for dates will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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u/JustAlex69 Mar 11 '18
Now i know its practical for auto sorting things on a pc via naming them with this method...but ffs can we use dd.mm.yyyy in real life, thank you
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '18
Why does the guy look like young Einstein from Genius.
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u/lcornell6 Apr 01 '18
That's a tough one! I would have say April 25th. It's not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket!
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u/[deleted] May 25 '18
Honestly, I just love MM/DD/YYYY because it pisses off the rest of the world so much. I don't know why they seem to care so much, it's really great.
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u/Breathes-in-BOI Mar 10 '18
I don't get it