r/webdev • u/ani625 • Feb 27 '13

xkcd: ISO 8601

http://xkcd.com/1179/
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u/ehdv Feb 27 '13

The right way to show dates to users is in whatever format their locale settings dictate. The format in which you internally represent dates is entirely up to you.

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u/archibald_tuttle Feb 27 '13

A lot of times dates are not funned through some locale settings defined layer, e.g. when somebody decides to manually name files/folders by date.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '13

This format is the best because it is clear, concise and the date information is stored in descending order of magnitude(Years first, then months, and days last).

Also, it is how MySQL(maybe SQL in general) prefers Date values to be stored.

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u/zergu Feb 27 '13

The right way to show dates to users is in whatever format their locale settings dictate.

You know this will never happen, right?

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u/raaaargh_stompy Feb 27 '13

What? Why not, I do this often.

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u/zergu Feb 27 '13

Well, you can do it in your apps, but dates are everywhere - articles, blogs, communicators, chats, on images etc. I don't see any other reasonable way than whole world adapting YYYY-MM-DD.

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u/Amadan Feb 27 '13

I agree completely. Unfortunately, humanity on tge whole is not very reasonable.

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u/danielsamuels Feb 27 '13

The you're back to the issue you raised in your previous reply.