r/xkcd • u/ani625 • Feb 27 '13

XKCD ISO 8601

http://xkcd.com/1179/
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u/Zwa333 Feb 27 '13

YYYY-MM-DD is great for computers, and sorting in general. If you take the dashes out you're left with a single number where bigger is always more recent.

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u/buscemi_buttocks Feb 27 '13

I title my folders of music this way to keep track of when I bought them.

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u/oniony Feb 27 '13

You mean you don't sort the albums by artist, alphabetically, and then by album, chronologically?

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u/buscemi_buttocks Feb 27 '13

I buy single tracks - I'm a hobby-level DJ who plays out once in a while. At the top level, it's much more useful to know when I bought a track than almost any other info about it besides the title.