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WCDT 4431-4435 (4th-8th of January, 2021)
Gyrre:
If memory serves, the USA didn't actually standardize the M/DD/YY format until the 1960s or 1970s.
sitnspin:
Honestly, YYYY/MM/DD is, for me, the most logical, aesthetically pleasing, and easily organised format. I wish that was the universal standard.
anahata:
It is the universal standard, more or less, hence the mention of ISO 6801. If only everyone would use it...
Wingy:
--- Quote from: Dandi Andi on 02 Jan 2021, 15:22 ---Ah, an ISO 6801 fan I see.
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Not so much. I just have a habit of using it since I've been in the position of creating files (meeting minutes, etc.) that are best organized by date. Now that the year is out of the teens for good, YYMMDD is far less likely to be misconstrued than DDMMYY. As an old programmer, it's also easier to keep files with names beginning YYMMDD blah blah blah since it's not always straightforward to sort files by date in some OSs, especially if in the process of reviewing the file you change it somehow. So I've landed on YYMMDD as a preference, not as a standard.
Gyrre:
--- 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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