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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ISO 8601 or nothing. Descending order of granularity, keep everything sorted as it should be!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My personal preference is DD-MM-AAAA, but as someone that works with lots of data from different formats and timezones... I have to agree with you...

YYYYMMDD and UTC should be the global default.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

annum annum annum annum

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RFC 3339, because ISO is not free.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me more? I can look it up but I'm curious if anybody ever got problems from using a standard like that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

ISO charges for their standards

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've said it once and I will say it again:

mkdir -p 2023/{January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,Septembet,October,November,December}

Warning: not POSIX

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ew ew ew no please no :'(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh my god, why would they do this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Why no? It will make your life way easier