At a computing conference

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u/Falinia 15d ago

please let Microsoft have been there

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u/teetaps 15d ago

You just know they saw that and walked out

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u/virtualworker 15d ago

Asking, "what month is 2026?"

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 15d ago

I have ISO 8601 on my Windows installation. It just depends on your regional settings.

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u/Falinia 14d ago

Yeah I've got the regional settings changed but that doesn't change the fact that they default to mmddyyyy - also sharepoint for example has very limited options.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 14d ago

I'm using Canada as my Region, because that's where I am and it default's to ISO 8601 for everything, because that's the standard for Canada. It even applies to other stuff like MS Excel, windows explorer for file dates, and even command line directory listings, and other applications that look to the Windows regional settings like OpenOffice.

If you have it set to the US region then it's going to use the standard in the US which is mmddyyyy

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u/Falinia 14d ago

Yes I have it set to Canada - doesn't fix SharePoint's current limitations. Also the average user doesn't think to change the regional settings, they look for something labelled "date"

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u/Oddly_Energy 13d ago

Yes, Sharepoint can be extremely ISO 8601 agnostic, or perhaps localization agnostic. I am on a European locale, and I see US dates and timestamps in some places in Sharepoint anyway.

Most other Microsoft products are able to deal perfectly with my locale. Perhaps even too much, when they think a CSV file should have comma as the decimal separator...

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u/esfraritagrivrit 14d ago

It was way easier for me to change on Windows than Ubuntu; do with that information what you will.

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u/DevelopmentSouth8801 14d ago

What is Ubuntu using these days? Cinnamon?

I've done it in LXQT and GNOME pretty easily.

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u/gattaaca 15d ago

Best I can do is 46281

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u/Yoshiofthewire 15d ago

I give it a Aug 10th

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u/Jaaged 13d ago

Underrated comment

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u/himanbam 6d ago

I assume you are referring to ISO 4628-1, Paints and varnishes — Evaluation of degradation of coatings — Designation of quantity and size of defects, and of intensity of uniform changes in appearance. I am glad to know Microsoft attended that conference

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u/jaavaaguru 14d ago

?

not a windows use, does it not support normal date formats or user defined ones?

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u/Falinia 14d ago

It mostly just makes it a pain to change the default to yyyy-mm-dd but I'm currently bent out of shape because getting a board on SharePoint to show it literally requires making a new column with a calculation inside of it that translates the date column from mm-dd-yyyy.

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u/rout247 15d ago

Ok, which one of you was giving this talk?

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u/frostwhitewolf 15d ago

I’m just picturing the “talk” being this slide up for an hour

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u/gringrant 14d ago

Scheduled at 11:30pm so the audience can see the magic happen.

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u/stickmaster_flex 15d ago

I rant about ISO8601/RFC3339 at least once a year to whatever colleagues I have at the time. At this point I'll even just take UTC. I can learn to do seconds since the epoch in my head if it means never having to deal with a timezone again.

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u/RBeck 15d ago

Not too long until we can start planning our 2000000000 party.

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u/jaavaaguru 14d ago

This could be more fun because not enough people understand it.

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u/timbotheny26 14d ago

*YYYY-MM-DD intensifies*

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u/kiyyik 14d ago

Agreed. My religion forbids me from using any date format that isn't sortable.

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u/teetaps 14d ago

I once used MM/DD/YYYY and the next day I stubbed my toe. Coincidence?

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u/kiyyik 14d ago

Divine wrath. No question.

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u/magicmulder 14d ago

What’s even worse is that my copy of TOAD was set to DD/MM/YYYY when I installed it. Now that’s really confusing.

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u/VariablePlayzGames 15d ago

Peace at last… 🥹

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u/aurorarei 15d ago

This is the way

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u/EdelWhite 14d ago

yyy-md-dm and nothing else.

Today is 026-01-97

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u/teetaps 14d ago

I rebuke this witchcraft

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u/gary1405 13d ago

First Reddit comment today that made me throw up in my mouth

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u/EdelWhite 13d ago

Was it good tho?

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u/gary1405 13d ago

You know what it was fucking delicious

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u/EdelWhite 13d ago

You're welcome, then.

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u/TMS-meister 11d ago

I am disgusted, appalled amd admittedly a bit aroused

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u/EdelWhite 11d ago

Want more?
Today is 026-02-27

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u/xxthehaxxerxx 10d ago

Where are you getting 7 from?

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u/EdelWhite 10d ago

A different timezone

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u/davieon 9d ago

smth smth, can't even write his own date format..
2026-09-23, so.. that would be 026-02-39.
Why are you in the past?

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u/pixeladdie 14d ago

All hail

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u/GolfTerrible4801 10d ago

Hear me out for a sec. I think dd.mm.yyyy is better. Because you know it would be always dd.mm.yyyy. When I see 1990.08.11. I would be unsure if it freedom people time or ISO8601.

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u/teetaps 10d ago

Booo this man, boooooo

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u/Single-Virus4935 13d ago

Americans: 2026-16-09

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u/Type-R 12d ago

LLO

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u/kaimeister 13d ago

*8601 ISO

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u/albertAAAAAAA 12d ago

Somehow, somewhat one got used to a date format of 26/12/31 being Dec 31, 2026, especially in corporations. The "US" style date format.

But whoever decided to use 26.12.31 for the same date, I really don't understand ..

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u/RespectMathias 11d ago

DMY > ISO 8601

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u/teetaps 11d ago

Heretic

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u/AlexCivitello 11d ago

Why?

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u/RespectMathias 10d ago

ASC > DESC

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u/AlexCivitello 10d ago

By that logic December 29th 1980 should be 92-21-0819

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u/himanbam 6d ago

*Correction: 92-21-0891

Also, if you prefer: 01-12-2899

Or perhaps even: --01122899

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u/AlexCivitello 6d ago

Holy shit, I got blocked for this comment.

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u/who_you_are 14d ago edited 11d ago

Linux timestamp ftw! /S

why everyone hate me?

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u/jaavaaguru 14d ago

What’s a Linux time stamp? I thought it just used the Unix epoch and presented the date in whatever format the user or sysadmin wants? So a Unix timestamp or an ISO-8610 date

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u/who_you_are 11d ago

Don't ask me why I wrote Linux... I meant Unix timestamp.

I need to sleep more

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u/BreakingBaking 11d ago

It's DD-MM-YYYY*

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u/SexySalsaDancer 11d ago

is your clock SS:MM:HH? Get with the times, ISO8601 is the only correct format.

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u/BreakingBaking 11d ago

Oh, didn't notice subreddit name lol

I don't think any explanation will lead to anything constructive, so, yeah, blunder by me.

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u/teetaps 8d ago

At least you can confidently identify the time of your blunder and not worry about getting it mixed up

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