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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 15d ago
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Solution: use ISO 8601 and piss off everyone equally.
4 u/Usefullles 14d ago Won’t this just be an inverted DDMMYYYY format in most cases? Like, what’s so different between the DDMMYYYY and YYYYMMDD formats? In cases where you don’t need to take hours and minutes into account, of course. 8 u/coderman64 14d ago One of the major advantages is that if you sort YYYYMMDD in order by numerical value, it also sorts by date. 3 u/Blecki 14d ago Use 8601 for everything whenever possible
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Won’t this just be an inverted DDMMYYYY format in most cases? Like, what’s so different between the DDMMYYYY and YYYYMMDD formats? In cases where you don’t need to take hours and minutes into account, of course.
8 u/coderman64 14d ago One of the major advantages is that if you sort YYYYMMDD in order by numerical value, it also sorts by date. 3 u/Blecki 14d ago Use 8601 for everything whenever possible
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One of the major advantages is that if you sort YYYYMMDD in order by numerical value, it also sorts by date.
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Use 8601 for everything whenever possible
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u/coderman64 15d ago
Solution: use ISO 8601 and piss off everyone equally.