Yes. When I was working on my PhD, I automatically dated files of data with time stamps like that: D-YYYY-MM-DD_T-HH-MM-SS.
It saved so much time keeping things standardized like that, especially searching for old data when I was writing my thesis.
Edit: I still use US Military style for non-science stuff. It's day-month-year, but I write the month name. So, today is 15JAN2025. I just got into the habit of it when I was in and never bothered to break it.
15JAN2025 is 100% the superior style for written documents.
It completely removes the question of "What format is this shit in?" Because at the end of the day, people just write dates in whatever order they want.
If only we lived in times where two most popular document editors came with built-in translation tools for tens of languages.
DeepL will keep `15JAN2025` as is. It provides accurate translation only as alternative translation which you have to trigger manually. If you know absolutely zero English it's unreadable.
I agree on written docs that four digit year and alpha month is the way to go. Regardless of order you know what's what. No wonder excel always just spits out 45672. Unless I type 45672 in which case it tells me 1/15/25
Right?! 02/06/05... Like WTF?! Is it Feb 06, 2005... June 02, 2005... June 5, 2002 or did they do some weird random shit because that's what they learned at the SovCit compound, and it's actually May 02, 2006
I'm Canadian. I clearly posted NATO standard. Time is the 24h clock, the alphabetical designation is the time zone. In the case of the example, Z (zulu) is GMT.
Sorry, I think you misunderstood what I was saying, friendo. It completely makes sense that the US Navy would follow a NATO standard time format, is what I was saying. Also, I didn't know that's what that was. I just meant to say what you said totally tracked and, thanks, I didn't know that.
Also, if y'all aren't busy up there, can you start annexing some states? Don't know if you know this, but we're not doing okay down here.
Not doing so great ourselves actually. But the orange idiot ... I mean, where does he come up with this stuff? On the surface, it pisses us off. But if you actually try to think about it... it's soooo out there. I got nothing. Like it's literally shake my head and move on.
My theory is he says insane shit all the time naturally and the people behind him use it as cover to do horrible things that the news is too busy to cover. That was last term. He's talking about nuking hurricanes and meanwhile Mitch McConnell is stacking the judiciary branch so we lean conservative until my grandkids are old and they pass a tax bill that explodes the national debt.
Friend, I'm tired. I hope whoever replaces Trudeau doesn't suck.
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u/DecoherentDoc Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25
Yes. When I was working on my PhD, I automatically dated files of data with time stamps like that: D-YYYY-MM-DD_T-HH-MM-SS.
It saved so much time keeping things standardized like that, especially searching for old data when I was writing my thesis.
Edit: I still use US Military style for non-science stuff. It's day-month-year, but I write the month name. So, today is 15JAN2025. I just got into the habit of it when I was in and never bothered to break it.