ISO-8601 over all other formats. 2023-08-09T21:11:00Z
Simple, sortable, intuitive.
Awful to actually read, though. Using T as a delimiter is mental… At least the hyphen provides some white space
I recall writing a script that produces that 01237 with smaller digits around it for the current date. It lists the numbers that occur in the date (0, 2, 3 and 9 for 2023-09-09), the smaller digits show at which position they show up in a YYYYMMDD format (the 0 shows up on positions 2, 5 and 7)
The script has not been pushed online cause it was so dang bad
Can’t believe he missed the opportunity to add 41332 to the number of ways of how not to write dates.
The fact that “YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM” displays from set to subset is visually satisfying to me. I use the format everywhere.
Not on paper documents though. Here in Europe I have to write dd-mm-yyyy.
I really wonder how americans were able to fuck this one up. There are three ways to arrange these and two of them are acceptable!
Edit: Yes, I meant common ways, not combinatorically possible ways.
Twelve ways if you count two-digit years. My nephew was born on 12/12/12 which was convenient.
There are two ways of writting dates: the “yyyy-mm-dd” one and the wrong one
