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That is the proper way to format a date. EVERYBODY can clearly see that this is the most logical way to organize dates, especially if we're filing them or sorting them on computers. However, there is still great contention between Europeans and Americans as to how to label dates if you're simply doing months and days. The most obvious and logical conclusion (and the one that follows the year/month/day) format is to label things month/day, ie December 31st (or 31 December for you Europeans) = 12/31 (month/day). Why this is a more superior system is two-fold: When you are dealing with large amounts of files that are simply labeled by the dates they were created, it is much easier to organize everything from largest blocks to smallest blocks (again, year/month/day). To use December again as an example, if I have a bunch of files from December 1st to December 31st (or 1 December to 31 December for you Europeans), it makes sense to label them 12/(1-31), instead of (1-31)/12. In the former case, everything is nicely organized under the month of December (12), rather than a gigantic mish-mash of poo poo if you were to label files 1/12, 2/12, 3/12, 4/12, etc. The second point of argument is that heavier weighted things always go first. If something weighs 2.5 kilograms, you say "two and a half kilograms," or "two point five kilograms," or "five and a half pounds" if you're American. You'd never say "half a kilogram and then two more" unless you were being deliberately obtuse. So the next time a European gets snippy with me about the metric system (which, by the way, most Americans do know and use quite interchangeably), I'll get on them about their inferior dating system.
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Dec 31, 2017 10:07
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That's a lot of words just to admit you're a failure of a human being.
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Dec 31, 2017 10:12
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Logic is irrelevant. Just acknowledge and accept that the american way is the best way.
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Dec 31, 2017 10:15
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Logic is irrelevant. Just acknowledge and accept that the american way is the best way. ...but I did?
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Dec 31, 2017 10:17
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Jesus Christ posted:...but I did? it's month/day/year
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Dec 31, 2017 10:20
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The month is like by far the most descriptive term for work except like for historians
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yeah I eat rear end posted:it's month/day/year Don't get me wrong, I use month/day/year for pretty much everything, but if we're going to try to settle with the Europeans we're going to have to agree on a standard and it should be year/month/day. I feel that's a good compromise.
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Dec 31, 2017 10:42
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I structure my life and days around metric time.
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Dec 31, 2017 10:48
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yeah when I organize stuff for myself I always do year/month/day because it works out better in computer folders and stuff like that
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Dec 31, 2017 12:11
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You're saying "Europeans" when I think you actually mean "the rest of the world".
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Dec 31, 2017 12:45
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It is a good thing tomorrow is a vacation day, I tell you whut.
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Dec 31, 2017 13:05
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a hole-y ghost posted:yeah when I organize stuff for myself I always do year/month/day because it works out better in computer folders and stuff like that This is the correct answer. Case closed!
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Dec 31, 2017 13:08
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Sorry but the best format is Unix time. 1514722546
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It should be day-month-year. If I ask someone the date it's not because I don't know the month, let alone year. Give me the most relevant info first, don't waste my valuable time.
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I'm fine with year/month/day. But I'm a computer nerd who cares about nerdy stuff like dates being string-sortable, so who cares about that. Happy new year!
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Jan 1, 2018 01:47
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Month day year for sure
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Jan 1, 2018 02:33
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ubachung posted:It should be day-month-year. If I ask someone the date it's not because I don't know the month, let alone year. Give me the most relevant info first, don't waste my valuable time. If you ask someone for the date and they don't just say like the seventh or whatever they probably have autism
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I mean you can go on about big endian or little endian but really risc processing and floating point processors made that argument irrelevant in the 90s and 2000s so the best way to encode a date is really however you want because you don’t need to worry about bitwise gold process memory that uses a general address range of the size of the least significant bit op I mean jeez. 
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ubachung posted:It should be day-month-year. If I ask someone the date it's not because I don't know the month, let alone year. Give me the most relevant info first, don't waste my valuable time. Close thread.
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Jan 1, 2018 02:42
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just use a full DTG for everything 312047RDEC17
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Regardless of format, it should be easy enough to figure out unless you're a moron.
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Jan 1, 2018 02:47
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actually nevermind, use the Julian date 17365
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Jan 1, 2018 02:48
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ubachung posted:It should be day-month-year. If I ask someone the date it's not because I don't know the month, let alone year. Give me the most relevant info first, don't waste my valuable time. 31 folders. each has all 12 months in it.
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Better Fred Than Dead posted:31 folders. each has all 12 months in it. You can store data however you want, this is about the formatting of dates. ubachung posted:It should be day-month-year. If I ask someone the date it's not because I don't know the month, let alone year. Give me the most relevant info first, don't waste my valuable time. my dog died im sad posted:Close thread.
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MARS TIME
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Bullshit. Month should always be abbreviated to avoid consternation and confusion. Example: 12-APR-17 APR-12-17 When I get old paper that comes across my desk and it is dated "12/11/16" causes me to pause a bit. (However, DD-MM-YY is better in every way.)
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I propose a compromise of Day-Year-Month
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http://metric1.org/8601.pdf
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Happy New Year's you loving assholes
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I propose a compromise of Day-Year-Month Please dont troll
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Woden posted:You can store data however you want, this is about the formatting of dates. ubachung posted:It should be day-month-year. If I ask someone the date it's not because I don't know the month, let alone year. Give me the most relevant info first, don't waste my valuable time. Ehh not really true. If you’re looking at something in a different year, knowing the year before the month is more logically useful. yesterday/today/tomorrow when appropriate ddd for current week (Monday) ddd d for current month (Monday the 2nd) MM/dd or MMM d for current year (01/2 or January 2nd) yyyy/MM/dd or yyyy MMM d otherwise (2017/01/02 or 2017 January 2nd) yyyy-MM-dd or yyyyMMdd for file storage obviously (2017-01-02 or 20170102) integer offset from common base for data storage (e.g. excel, database) Hope this helps you with your soon to be forgotten thread.
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And please stop using the names of months for fucks sake, they have a goddamn number for a reason.
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doverhog posted:01.01.2018 this is an unhelpful example... is tomorrow 02.01 or 01.02? doverhog posted:And please stop using the names of months for fucks sake, they have a goddamn number for a reason. joined May 31, 2013 - ya know I really wish that said 05.31.2013 ya big dummy
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Thanks for calling me big. 
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Ruggan posted:Ehh not really true. If you’re looking at something in a different year, knowing the year before the month is more logically useful. Just use grep or something you nerd, the rest of us benefit greatly from not having to read the year and month every single time we just need the date.
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