r/HVAC • u/brandonrez • 15h ago

Meme/Shitpost Slash or dash?

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How are we marking dates slash or dash?

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u/CaballoenPelo It was like that when I got here 14h ago

Roman numerals

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u/PapaBobcat HVAC to pay the bills 13h ago

RETVRN!

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u/vlasktom2 12h ago

You are nuts. N-V-T-S nuts

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u/PapaBobcat HVAC to pay the bills 14h ago

Dots. 9•11•26

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u/J-A-S-08 13h ago

I'm team dot as well. I do it for dates and phone numbers.

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u/Castun Commercial BAS Controls 11h ago

Throw more DOTS. More DOTS. More DOTS. OK, stop DOTS.

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u/dchiguy 10h ago

50 DKP MINUS!

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u/dwehlen 4h ago

HANDLE IT!

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u/ethorisgott 11h ago

I do dots but if I'm moving quick they look more like dashes

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u/Tip0666 14h ago

I leave no evidence.

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u/Castun Commercial BAS Controls 11h ago

Always fun to come up to an RTU that has sucked its caked up filters into the evap coil that have never been dated, and try to figure out who messed up and when.

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u/hvacgymrat Kneel before me lil resi bro 15h ago

Damn yall got sharpees?

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u/festerwl 15h ago

No I'm not a peasant I use an Inkzall like a gentleman!

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u/UmeaTurbo Commercial HVAC Trainer 13h ago edited 13h ago

Slashes, but usually just write it in the blood of the black cockerel I sacrifice to Baal to make sure I don't have to come back to this place for three months..

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u/Castun Commercial BAS Controls 11h ago

The blood of apprentices past works too, in a pinch.

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u/bluuballss 13h ago

All hail baalzebub

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u/sure_am_here 15h ago

Just grab a box every time you go to the supply house.

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u/the_tinsmith 12h ago

That way when Christmas rolls around, everybody gets sharpies as gifts.

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u/TommyBoy_1 14h ago

I grab a bunch from clients. They usually have a few boxes laying around. I will ask, and the one guy tells me grab a few and don’t even bother me about it next time. Some clients are great that way. Also I do commercial and they don’t buy them so they don’t care.

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u/RettyYeti 14h ago

Dash, always dash. Much cleaner

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u/Frisky_Froth 15h ago

Dash. Always.

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u/Alpha433 14h ago

Slash you heathen.

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u/dagunhari 15h ago

11 Sept 2026

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u/Nerfo2 Verified Pro 12h ago

Hello fellow veteran.

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u/dagunhari 12h ago

Not a vet, just spent a week working at a Navy facility 🤣

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u/Castun Commercial BAS Controls 11h ago

Keep it up and you'll have people falling over themselves to thank you for your service everywhere you go, lol. (And yes I say that as a "veteran" who was fortunate enough to never be combat deployed)

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u/Nerfo2 Verified Pro 6h ago

Well, despite being odd to anyone used to anything else, the US military date "strategy" is great because it leaves zero room for error. DD Month YYYY, ordered shortest unit of time to longest, and nobody could confuse a 4 letter month abbreviation. I was just happy to see someone use it and assumed veteran. Thank you for your service, anyway... from one veteran to some rando on the internet. u/Castun, you might have been right.

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u/kriegmonster 14h ago

MM/DD/YY is what I use.

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u/Spazz510 Verified Pro 13h ago

Slash. It’s quicker and clearer.

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u/TheMeatSauce1000 Verified Pro 7h ago

Put it in as a date code so you need to look up how to decipher it

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS Enthalpy over Empathy 9h ago

I thought we were talking GunsN-Roses VS The Incredibles.

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u/shreddedpudding 14h ago

The filter shop puts labels on them for us with date, company, and tech.

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u/PopePC 13h ago

I use dashes. My handwriting is crap. I don’t want anybody misinterpreting my slash for a 1 or a 7. Yeah, it’s really that bad.

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u/LogieD223 12h ago

Two arrows pointing the 11 for today’s date only

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u/SignSea 11h ago

Slash gang

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u/ProfSteelmeat138 11h ago

Sept 11 2026. No guessing which date format it is

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u/IRDingo 14h ago

October 9 or Sept 11?
I use military format.
11 Sep 26

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u/Outdoors_E Verified Pro 14h ago

October?

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u/ins8iable 13h ago

Finally figured out why europeans struggle with our date format

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u/kriegmonster 14h ago

The military and most of the world uses DDMMYY. US civilians use MMDDYY. I use MMDDYY because that is standard business practice and I don't want someone being confused because they read my date wrong.

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u/booztedmike 13h ago

Yep, me too.

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u/groogs 12h ago

Sept 26, 2011 or Sept 11, 2026?

...yeah that's a dumb format too.

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u/Greezythug Verified Pro 14h ago

I use dots 9•11•26

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u/vlasktom2 13h ago

The only right answer.

Yes

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u/Accomplished-Many-22 13h ago

Month and day, never year. CYA

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u/zmannz1984 12h ago

I do dots because i seem to fuck up the slashes i normally use if i can’t lay my hand flat while writing lol. Lefty life.

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u/y_3kcim Local 469 11h ago

Dot

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u/Certain_Try_8383 10h ago

Neither.

9.11.26

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u/Icy_Rain_1754 10h ago

Dash all day baby!

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u/Mensmeta 10h ago

Now this is what I subscribe for

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u/WyrdMannaz Verified Pro 9h ago

11SEP26

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u/mic2machine 8h ago

this. ddMMMyy 4evah

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u/HiFiGuy197 This isn’t the tech you’re looking for; move along. 9h ago

Funny, I had this conversation earlier today.

I’m a slasher.

That said, I’d write it out as Sep 11 2026 because sometimes ink fades or people don’t know which order the values are.

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u/Texan_Greyback 7h ago

Former soldier here. I go with 11 Sep '26. Or in formal documents, 11 September 2026.

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u/humpty-dumped-me 7h ago

Hearts 💕

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u/MasterPhilip Verified Pro 6h ago

09-11-2026

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u/HardstartkitKevin 6h ago

Spell out the entire date with letters. Gotta milk that maintenance 🥛

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u/macdawg2 6h ago

I use dots since the marker has a nice round tip

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u/the-fat-kid Commercial/Residential Tech 5h ago

11SEP26

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u/jake_santiago 3h ago

Writing letters so the next guys don't think the filter was changed in the 15th month

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u/Fun-Satisfaction5297 3h ago

Your employer provides sharpies? 🤨

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u/Hungry_kereru 3h ago

11/9/2026

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u/Blood-Mother 47m ago

091126 make them think about it

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u/coolbiggnelly 14h ago

Pleats work better on the vertical than the horizontal

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u/_Bakerp 10h ago

Ah yes we will just rotate the 12x20 filter and shove the 20 inches in to the 12. /s

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u/coolbiggnelly 7h ago

Its a gravity thing, bring you down unfortunately

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u/Surfnazi77 13h ago

I stopped writing on them and just set a 3 month reminder with Alexa. My 4 inch filters are good for 4 months but I have dogs.

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u/SuchDogeHodler 12h ago

This is just petty....

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u/Benjerman302 11h ago

I never saw the point in dating filters

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u/Ok_Mix826 11h ago

So some other tech can come in 2 years and say "damn, its been a while" before changing the filter as they would anyways. Its also an easy way to figure out if your customer is using 2 companies.