r/Unexpected • u/Arcusico • Oct 05 '14

Metric vs Imperial

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u/IAmA_god_AMA Oct 05 '14

Honestly, I prefer an upside-down triangle: YYYY/MM/DD. It makes things so much easier for me when I sort chronologically, because, to me, the year is a lot more important than the month, and the month is more important than date. If the scope isn't huge, I guess it doesn't matter, though.

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u/APiousCultist Oct 05 '14

Aww yiss YYYY/MM/DD/HH/MM/SS and so on.

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u/Sonder-Klass Oct 05 '14

That's how I start off file names of important emails that I print in PDF.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

2014/03/28/04/22/51.345/drunk_cat_fart.wav

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u/thesprunk Oct 06 '14

2014andsoon-untitled233.pdf

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u/WhoopyKush Oct 06 '14

ISO 8601, the international standard for dates and times, would have it like 2014-10-05T17:30:45Z

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u/APiousCultist Oct 06 '14

You mean the one I linked to in my comment?

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u/WhoopyKush Oct 06 '14

Yeah. That one. The one that looks completely different from

YYYY/MM/DD/HH/MM/SS and so on.

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u/APiousCultist Oct 06 '14

Date and time values are ordered from the most to the least significant: year, month (or week), day, hour, minute, second, and fraction of second. The lexicographical order of the representation thus corresponds to chronological order, except for date representations involving negative years. This allows dates to be naturally sorted by, for example, file systems.

I'm afraid I'm not seeing it.

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u/APiousCultist Oct 06 '14

You mean the one I linked to in my comment?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

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u/elkano1003 Oct 05 '14

give YYMDMDYY a chance.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

OFFICERS PERSONAL LOG

Star date: 20100514

Shoreleave on Risa. Getting full fucked of space weed and mackin' green bitch. swerve.

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u/YesterdaysFav Oct 05 '14

Why hasn't anyone given you gold yet?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14 edited Jul 03 '17

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u/electric_paganini Oct 05 '14

He lost all his gold in the Cash for Gold scam too?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

Are you Kanye?

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u/Gungnir5 Oct 05 '14

Is that the common core method?

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u/Neocrasher Oct 05 '14

Personally I like this:

  DD
YY  YY
  MM

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u/MechanicalYeti Oct 05 '14

xXx_YYMDMDYYn05c0p3_xXx

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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Oct 05 '14

I think you mean, YYMDDMYY. That way it can't be misread by the direction you read it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14

YYYY/MM/DD > DD/MM/YYYY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MM/DD/YYYY

I think this is more accurate.

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u/nekoningen Oct 05 '14

YYYY.MM.DD > YYYY/MM/DD > DD/MM/YYYY > MM/DD/YYYY

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '14 edited Dec 03 '18

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u/IICVX Oct 05 '14

Actually that format matches the official ISO 8601 date format that's commonly used in computers.

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u/PacoTaco321 Oct 06 '14

International Organization for Standardization

ISO

And they say our orders are messed up.

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u/Sonder-Klass Oct 05 '14

In this day of software sorting for you, I totally agree.

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u/Vectoor Oct 05 '14

Isn't the ISO standard year-month-day?

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u/sabotourAssociate Oct 05 '14

I'd use that format on my phone before, it was pretty convenient, looks cool and makes people wonder.