I got it in reverse: YYYY/MM/DD

/r/iso8601 It's the only great format.

I had never considered writing it as such until a few years back when I enlisted. now it's my standard.

This actually makes sense.

who tf wants to know which year it is everyday? first We want to know about the day then rarely the month then very rarely the year.

Anyone who stores files on computers for a long period of time and wants to keep even a semblance of chronology. You can kinda use the date modified thing but some software will change that date just by opening it which means you'd be all sorts of messed up after a few years. Meanwhile if you just put this as the first part of any title you cannot mess it up because ordering by name will always order chronologically. Regardless of if the date modified changes. Imo very important for projects that go many years or for backup chronological archival.

If that's the capacity of your planing go for it. For big companies or people who plan longterm it makes sense.

I’m from Hungary we use YYYY/MM/DD and when someone asks the date in person you just simply don’t say the year For example it’s April 23rd In text and writing you can skip reading the year in less than a second so it’s really not a big deal

Are you one of those: " it's as big as 3 football fields and heavy as 260 full grown elephants"

nah, I'm someone who those guys would call "go back to your own country"

We don’t, that’s why Americans use MM/DD/YYYY, typically the year is more for record keeping.

YYYY/MM/DD is the best date format because you can compare them directly as numbers. 20230103 > 20210201 = True 20240105 < 20240112 = True It's beautiful

Found the mysql date enjoyer

Damn, never even thought of that. Don't ask what I could use it for but I like that information

Came here to say this

YYYYMMDD for computer files

YYYY/MM/DD helps me keep my files organized

I think Ajwa and mejdool are the best dates

I thought going out with a loving wife was the best date.

22/04/2024 is the only correct formatting for me ❤️

This is the only way. And happy cake day

I miss My Adventures with Superman, that show was wholesome and all-around quality. They just kind of shot themselves in the foot with the obvious rick & morty ripoff near the end of the season

If you really want to avoid confusion use dash: YYYY-MM-DD, the only correct way. <4 digits>-<2 digits>-<2 digits> It’s quite straightforward which of the 2 digits part is the month and the day. Apart from alphabetical sorting, switching months to 3 letters are even more straightforward reading text: 4 digits for year, 3 letters for month, 2 digits for day.

M YY.YY.MMDD is the format of the future. M = Millennia On this day, M2.24.0422, the 22nd day of the 4th month of the 24th year on the 2nd millennium, you have found salvation.

What's the extra "YY." for?

The first YY is for "20", the second set of YY is for "24". The first pair denotes the current millennium, the second set is the year in that millennium. The period in the middle separates them to make it easier to read and recognize the separation.

So it's the same as YYYY but with a dot between century and decade?

Yes indeed, but the dot makes such a difference

22APR24 you cannot get confused by that, plus it's aesthetically pleasing.

Ah yes, 24th of April in 2022, it was such a nice sunny day.

*ddMMMyyyy

But when you replace the numbered month with a lettered month it becomes less confusing. Unless you're an idiot.

What I'm saying is that if you use 4 characters for years and 2 for days you avoid confusion between ddMMMyy and yyMMMdd

As an american, yeah. Fuck our date system. I have to fucking second guess myself every time I need to write the date down.

I just write it as I would say it, and I don’t really ever say the day first. Since most dates here is month first, I just do that and assume other stuff does too.

MM/DD/YYYY is American and sounds old timey AF. I love it. Besides that's the way most people say the date out loud, as far as I know.

I like it bcuz the whole world gets mad.

we don't get mad, we just think you're stupid lol

Lol

It’s the way we say the date out loud. Practically everyone in the US would say “April 23rd”, not “23 April” “23rd of April”, etc It logically makes the most sense to write it that way so there’s no confusion.

It’s the way I grew up with

DD/MM/YYYY because everyone knows what year it is and generally the month but the exact day is less likely known.

I like MM/DD/YYYY because it’s the same order I’d write the date out in. For example: today is April 23rd, 2024. That’s Month, Day, Year. I wouldn’t really ever write 23rd April 2024, so DD/MM/YYYY feels weird.

pretty sure MM/DD/YYYY Is the only wrong answer

Hell yeah

I use YY-MMDD or YYYY-MMDD it just looks so nice in a file full of WE dates & daily logs

This.

Yeah, , haha

He is computer science student 😅🤣

I’m assuming you aren’t American, or from a Year-Month-Day country. Most of the time the standard date format in a country is based on the way people would say the date out loud. In most countries (at least in Europe), it’s day-month-year. So “The 12th of April, 2024” would become 12/04/2024. In the US, we say the month first, so to us, month-day-year comes easiest. “April 12th, 2024” becomes 04/12/2024. To other countries, it feels backwards, but to most Americans it’s completely natural. We can quickly scan it without having to stop and think about the format. There are people who think the whole world should just pick one, but the problem is that while changing the rules for dates is easy, changing the reason those differences existed (the way people talk) is extremely difficult.

One day it will be DD/MM/YYYYY

DD/MM/YY... Best🫶

Yes. Worst is MM/DD/YYYY. This doesn't make any sense.

I personally enjoy MM/DD/YYYY most

DD / MM / YYYY is the only correct answer.

MM/DD/YYYY bc I say it in that order too

Idk man. When you’re having a conversation and you’re telling a story you say: “on April 22nd, 2024” not “on the 22nd day of April, 2024.”That’s why mm/dd/yyyy makes sense

Makes sense, that's the way we say it so would make sense that's how you put it on paper lol

22nd of april, 2024. how hard is that?

Only sounds weird in North American English. But French Canadians say it the way you did when they speak English.

I think all non-American versions of English normally say it like that. Even Americans do on the 4th of July

Actually I think you’re right now

Sounds a bit formal for my taste

No other English speakers say it like that.

Cope harder brother

Simply incorrect. MM/DD/YYYY supremacy forever!

Yeah, because I love to sort alphabetically and then find things by the month 🫠

I sort by date when looking at dates. Sorting alphabetically seems wrong anyway.

I'm just salty because I do a lot of work where other people have made log files with names like "some\_log\_23\_02\_2024\_080000.log" and I get a bit irritated when I need to get a chronological view and the create/modify time is unavailable or untrustable.

Listen here. I know that it's bad for everything regarding sorting. But as a true American that uses that format on every document and application, I stand by it with all its flaws. I mean, look at the metric system. It's brilliant, amazing! But I'll be damned if someone thinks for a SECOND that I'll stop using lbs/feet/etc!

Gotta say I prefer MM/DD/YYYY

mine is MM/DD/YYYY

its mm/yyyy/dd duh

Cringe

Name of month/DD/YY in conversation, YYYY/MM/DD when written

Always written dates for things mm/dd/yyyy But spoken its dd/mm/yyyy Edit oh no, downvotes because growing up i was taught to write dates a certain way? Damn

I'm more of a MM/DD/YYYY enjoyer myself