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[–] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

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[–] Lord_Logjam@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

I was unaware of this. But it uses the same logic as the British date format so I am okay with it.

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[–] jimmux@programming.dev 2 points 3 years ago

Is this where someone posts the relevant xkcd about too many standards?

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[+] original_ish_name@lemm.ee -19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That standard can go fuck itself

The correct standard is dd/mm/yyyy

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Why would you have minutes inbetween there and not months?

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[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

? I do have months in the "mm"

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[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

He's making a pedantic joke. Lower case m is sometimes used to indicate minutes.

Albeit a weak one since many formats use lowercase m to indicate month. Such as programming languages like python & PHP. IBM & Microsoft standards also use lowercase m and so forth.

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah it's a bit mixed bag. Powershell command get-date expects mm for minutes and MM for months, which has messed up my scripts logging few times lol

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[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago

I did think he might be making a joke but since as you said it would be a weak one I gave him the benifit of the doubt

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