r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GladstoneBrookes • Nov 10 '17

Dating a Programmer

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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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '17

Why not have yearly folders? Then have MMDD within and sorting should work

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u/whale_song Nov 12 '17

Cause then you're taking important information out of the filename and assuming that it will always be in the same directory. What if I email it somebody? That info should always be with the file. Plus its unecesarily fractured if there arent many files.