this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is about the old argument around how date strings are formatted.

MMDDYYYY vs YYYYMMDD, spaces or hyphens may differ. It's an old and passionate argument (mostly due to the American approach of starting with the month being insane)

[–] zik 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Both ISO8601 and RFC3339 are YYYY-MM-DD. The difference is in how the date and time are separated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Than you! I was shooting from the hip half asleep (the classic 'gosh I'm so clever' moment for me...)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Also, ISO 8601 has some handy rules for expressing time lengths and periodicities.

[–] datelmd5sum 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've worked with this one project for so long I can now read +%s timestamps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a certain kind of skill I wouldn't want the need to have. I just copy paste those timestamps into a terminal with date -d @ (and always forget the right syntax for that :D)