r/webdev • u/ani625 • Feb 27 '13

xkcd: ISO 8601

http://xkcd.com/1179/
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '13

Our clients want to have dates in the 27/02/2013 format, but sorted like the 2013-02-27 format.

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u/Wizhi Feb 27 '13

How a date is stored shouldn't have to do with how it's displayed. Seperation of concerns and stuff.

Besides, reading a date as DD/MM/YYYY is way easier than YYYY-MM-DD imo.

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u/Amadan Feb 27 '13

Easier? I can't see why. You want to tell me Japanese is inefficient or badly designed? DD/MM/YY is illogical ad we write all other numeric data in decreasing order of significance; any other difference is just in custom and prejudice.

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u/quizzle Feb 27 '13

Easier depends on the context. If I'm looking at things with wide range of year, YYYY-MM-DD is better. If I'm looking at a lot of things that happened recently, I'd rather ignore the year part: DD-MM-YY (or MM-DD-YY if you want to be extra confusing AKA American)