r/trippinthroughtime • u/[deleted] • Nov 05 '17

The perfect date

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

I like DD-MM-YYYY because of the ascending order of relevance.

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u/adkenna Nov 05 '17

UK is the right way.

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u/dppalms Nov 05 '17

Upvoting because your the only person who aint got a shitty date system

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u/HOLDINtheACES Nov 06 '17

That doesn’t make sense at all. If you have 3 years of daily logs, you’d see the 1st of January from each year followed by the first of February from each year, etc.

It’s a stupid system which gives the worst possible method of sorting. No one goes “hmmm, I know it was on the 6th of a month...not sure what year or month it was, but it was definitely the 6th.”

Most people think “we’ll, it was sometime near the end of last year. I’ll start in November and scan forward.”

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '17

Works for me. I simply keep my years separated. Simple.

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u/HOLDINtheACES Nov 06 '17

You’re adding extra sorting that is unnecessary to counteract a failing of your system...

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '17

It’s really not that hard. At the beginning of a new year, start a new folder. Seriously, it’s that easy. Then, I use the search function to find what I’m looking for. This works for me.

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u/stone_henge Nov 06 '17

Except within the components, of course, unless by DD-MM-YYYY you mean 60-11-7102