yyyy/mm/dd, it’s less ambiguous and it sorts nicely
Edit: so many replies suggesting using a hyphen as a separator, I’d like to compromise by using the oblique angle sign (⦧) which looks like a slash that becomes a hyphen in the middle. yyyy⦧mm⦧dd
Beat me to it, except I’d do yyyy-mm-dd because some OSes throw fits about having slashes in file names. Way better than the “Group Project-final FINAL v3 PAUL USE THIS ONE.file” versioning system that people seem to use.
yyyy/mm/dd, it’s less ambiguous and it sorts nicely
Edit: so many replies suggesting using a hyphen as a separator, I’d like to compromise by using the oblique angle sign (⦧) which looks like a slash that becomes a hyphen in the middle. yyyy⦧mm⦧dd
I should turn your comment into a shitpost…
Beat me to it, except I’d do yyyy-mm-dd because some OSes throw fits about having slashes in file names. Way better than the “Group Project-final FINAL v3 PAUL USE THIS ONE.file” versioning system that people seem to use.
HISSSSSS.
switch the slashes to dashes
[Angry ISO-8601 noises]
nerd detected
lmftfy: american nerd detected
What’s American about ISO 8601 with slashes?
Edit: typo
*ISO 8601
i don’t think ISO 8601 allows slashes.
but: you are right, and i was not aware: many countries use the
/for dates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country i thought this was a USA thing… thanks for the hint!