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[–] RedEyeFlightControl 12 points 11 months ago

I'm a systems guy. ISO8601 or die. Whomever decided to put the most significant digits at the end of MMDDYYYY can get fired. From a cannon. Into the sun.

[–] TheMadnessKing 11 points 11 months ago

Makes a lot more sense as it gets easy to sort files that way.

[–] Guster 11 points 11 months ago

When I try to enter a date in excel and it formats it as numerical 424523 or some shit smh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Use YYYY-DD-MM for pure chaos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Tab completion approves of this naming scheme.

[–] bappity 8 points 11 months ago

I find that it's better than confusing month and day and going insane when dealing with both American and Bri'ish clients

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Year-Month-Day best everywhere

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