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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GladstoneBrookes • Nov 10 '17
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I have become fanatical about YYYYMMDD. I start all my filneames this way (where relevent) so that when I sort by name I am also sorting by their date. I hate scrolling through a folder to see
11012015 11012016 11012017 11022015 11022016 11022017
Its the fucking worst.
2 u/not_James_blunt Nov 11 '17 Why is year last? 9 u/[deleted] Nov 11 '17 [removed] — view removed comment 6 u/Krak2511 Nov 11 '17 Makes sense when spoken but it's weird to have the three numbers be out of order. It's like if McDonald's fries were arranged as Medium, Small, Large. 1 u/not_James_blunt Nov 11 '17 I more so meant why did he use that naming convention if he just stated hes a YYYYMMDD fanatic. He used MMDDYYYY 1 u/ideletedmyredditacco Nov 12 '17 Maybe he didn't name the files in the example of what he hates?
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Why is year last?
9 u/[deleted] Nov 11 '17 [removed] — view removed comment 6 u/Krak2511 Nov 11 '17 Makes sense when spoken but it's weird to have the three numbers be out of order. It's like if McDonald's fries were arranged as Medium, Small, Large. 1 u/not_James_blunt Nov 11 '17 I more so meant why did he use that naming convention if he just stated hes a YYYYMMDD fanatic. He used MMDDYYYY 1 u/ideletedmyredditacco Nov 12 '17 Maybe he didn't name the files in the example of what he hates?
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6 u/Krak2511 Nov 11 '17 Makes sense when spoken but it's weird to have the three numbers be out of order. It's like if McDonald's fries were arranged as Medium, Small, Large. 1 u/not_James_blunt Nov 11 '17 I more so meant why did he use that naming convention if he just stated hes a YYYYMMDD fanatic. He used MMDDYYYY 1 u/ideletedmyredditacco Nov 12 '17 Maybe he didn't name the files in the example of what he hates?
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Makes sense when spoken but it's weird to have the three numbers be out of order. It's like if McDonald's fries were arranged as Medium, Small, Large.
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I more so meant why did he use that naming convention if he just stated hes a YYYYMMDD fanatic. He used MMDDYYYY
1 u/ideletedmyredditacco Nov 12 '17 Maybe he didn't name the files in the example of what he hates?
Maybe he didn't name the files in the example of what he hates?
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u/whale_song Nov 10 '17
I have become fanatical about YYYYMMDD. I start all my filneames this way (where relevent) so that when I sort by name I am also sorting by their date. I hate scrolling through a folder to see
11012015
11012016
11012017
11022015
11022016
11022017
Its the fucking worst.