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WCDT 4431-4435 (4th-8th of January, 2021)
Gyrre:
I could swear I had formatted at least one of those poll options with having an 'of' before the year at the end.
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: sitnspin on 02 Jan 2021, 22:22 ---Honestly, YYYY/MM/DD is, for me, the most logical, aesthetically pleasing, and easily organised format. I wish that was the universal standard.
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Because it functions similar to integers with the last digits being the first to increase, then the slowly increasing with the month serving as a hundreds place, then the year as a thousands place?
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One little two little three little-endian
Three big, two big, one big-endian
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thousands/hundreds/tens
year/month/day
Dandi Andi:
ISO 6801 gives the date as YYYYMMDD but also allows the inclusion of dashes for visual clarity such as YYYY-MM-DD. This format is also (as IICIH illustrated with his little song) called "Big-endian". I like this one because, as Sitnspin pointed out, if it's in numerical order, it's in chronological order as well, so it is very useful for indexing. It's written left to right with the most significant digits on the left just like any other numbers we write. It is, its way, elegant.
Little-endian, DD-MM-YYYY, is more intuitive for conversational use. It truncates very well in casual conversation. If I ask my librarian for a copy of the newspaper from the 23rd, they'll very likely assume I mean the 23rd of December. If I say that I need the paper from the 23rd of November, they'll very reasonably assume (as you did in the last sentence I am sure) that I mean November 2020. So it makes sense to use little-endian order since the most relevant information is closest to the front (in most casual applications).
Middle-endian, MM-DD-YYYY, is only used in the US, as far as I know. And not without good reason. It isn't simple or elegant. It makes no sense. Why do we do this? Why are we so stubbornly foolish? It is the same reason we do anything. Someone did it that way once and it stuck and we're too embarrassed to admit that we've been wrong this whole time.
Farideh:
I agree with the YYYY-MM-DD format.
Also: comic's up. May is doing quite well 🙂
Gyrre:
Your explanation for Big-endian is basically what I was trying to get at.
Let's just be glad that going by the julian date basically only happens in factories. The last two digits of the year followed by the day number of that year. For examples; today (Sunday, the 3rd of January, 2021) would be 21003, and the 31st of this December will be 21365.
EDIT: typo fix
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