May I chime in with a DD MMM YYYY as in 22 NOV 2023
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Hey… it sorts properly alphabetically
Only within the same century, which is an issue for those of us born last millennium (or managing systems from that time), and could be a real problem in 50-ish years when we could get the first duplicates.
Better to stick with YYYY-MM-DD for alphabetical sorting
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Its the same for all East Asian countries as well, but I guess slapping JAPAN on it means fast upvotes, like that "Place, Japan" meme.
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Japan isn't on its own wavelength, most of East Asian does this, probably because they all decided they wanted to be like China: which was a government which governed more. https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o?t=1m7s
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Military be like 23/NOV/2023
It makes sense to either go general to specific or specific to general. MM-DD-YYYY is neither.
TIL that I'm Japanese
YY/MM/DD SUPREMACY
The truly enlightened interleave the numerals: YMD/YMD
The UK driving licence has birthdate as YMMDDY in the licence number. Totally uncrackable encryption.
How about 0xYYYMDD or 0xYYYYMDD if you need years after 4095 for some reason.
Today is 0x7e7b16
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China does this too. I love getting files in this format.
Reiwa era enters the chat
Most of Japanese hates the arbitary currender year resetting at each new emperor enthronrment. The conversion is ass and no one knows when it changes (bound to emperor's health) . Worst is its official year that govmt body accepts.
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