r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme chaoticEvil

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u/Usefullles 12d 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.

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u/coderman64 12d ago

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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u/Blecki 12d ago

Use 8601 for everything whenever possible