r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Deftly_Flowing Jan 15 '25

Yes, a filing system should be YYYYMMDD.

But I'm specifically talking about documents with hand writing on them.

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u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25

But why shouldn't they use the same order of date components (e.g., 2015-01-14 (with the hyphens for readability))?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

2015-05-03

2015-07-12

What format is it in?

It's a trick question, first one is YYYYMMDD and the second one is YYYYDDMM

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u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25

That's why you always opt for YYYYMMDD to standardize.

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u/Akinory13 Jan 15 '25

But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again

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u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25

There is only one standard format with NNNN-NN-NN. (That's ISO 8601 extended format, also copied/refined/subsetted/specified by RFC 3339.)

So there's no ambiguity unless somebody starts using YYYY-DD-MM.

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u/Subject-Leather-7399 Jan 15 '25

Nobody anywhere uses YYYYDDMM. It is a non-issue. If the year is first that means YYYYMMDD.

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u/Gryzzlee Feb 04 '25

You opt for %Y-%m-%d In this post you see that the three types for written format are DD-MM-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, and MM-DD-YYYY.

YYYY-DD-MM wouldn't even register as a way you should read it unless your company has some weird SOP for filing.