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Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Different date format: day / month / year; as opposed to the US standard: month / day / year.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Which drives me nuts! The month doesn't change for 4 whole weeks! Why is it first? I want the info that contains the most variation displayed first so my eyes don't have to glaze past useless info every time.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Year/month/day is superior when reading full dates, because it's the least ambiguous. If I only need day and month, I'd rather use month's full or shortened name (like 27 Sep). Ambiguity is the real enemy here, not any particular order

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    RFC-3339 gang gang

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I scanned through this and my takeaway is that it's just defining a formal grammar for iso 8601. Did I miss anything important?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Kind of. As I understand it, ISO-8601 is also super broad and allows for a bunch of different potential formats and I think durations.

    For instance, 2009-W01-1 is a valid ISO-8601 date, meaning 2008-12-31(!) which is pretty weird.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    True, thats how my laptop displays the date. It never even mentions the month because I see that enough on other sources. I guess I just hate how month first is the default where I live more than anything. It perfectly sums up the subpar optimacy of the USA. Shit could be better, but its just not.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    ¿And don't you hate how US punctuation is at the end? ¿If you read an entire sentence, but you don't even know it is a question until you're at the end, then how do you know which intonation to use? ¡English is subpar and something should be done about that!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Year-Month-Day is also my go-to for naming files (at least in systems that don’t have file versioning) because it allows Name sort to list things chronologically. Just have every version of the same file have the same name, then append Year-Month-Day to the end.

    I work with a lot of bespoke systems that use proprietary files, so file versioning with something like Google Drive or OneDrive goes right out the window. But Year-Month-Day makes it easy to maintain some semblance of organization.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It must be tiring at work waiting for the clock to finally strike 00:5pm.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    See? Now I dont have to skip the hour when looking for the minutes that constantly change.

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