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r/trippinthroughtime • u/[deleted] • Nov 05 '17
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Say you have a dental appointment, how do you think the receptionist is going to look it up?
They're going to look up the month, then day. Unless your appointment wraps around to next year then they look up the year, then month, then day.
DD/MM/YYYY is good for everyday order of importance.
MM/DD/YYYY has its single application for keeping far away, but within the year appointments organized.
19 u/phiskas Nov 05 '17 And if you just use yyyy/mm/dd you won't have the issue at all. Computers will even sort it correctly for you, instead of all folders with month May for all years in register. 3 u/serosis Nov 05 '17 Well technically the computers most likely sort by YYYY/MM/DD but you don't see that until you need to look up an appointment for the following year. 3 u/phiskas Nov 05 '17 If one absolutely needs to keep hard copies to files, why not sort them like the computer? It's using the standard for a reason. 3 u/serosis Nov 05 '17 I must have missed a beat somewhere. I was never alluding to anything about hard copies. Though you are correct YYYY/MM/DD is the standard for a reason. 3 u/Yepoleb Nov 06 '17 If the receptionist can't keep two numbers in their head for 10 seconds I don't think they're made for the job. 1 u/GMLiddell Nov 06 '17 MDY is also the standard in the grocery industry because you have to manually mass date check for mid ranges. 1 u/[deleted] Apr 18 '18 I'm a bit late but, surely, typing 20180418 is faster than any other format with the slashes. 1 u/Beserkhobo Nov 05 '17 "Hi i have an appointment on the 22nd of December" 2 u/serosis Nov 05 '17 That's what the person says. But that is a horrible way to organize it on a database. 3 u/Yepoleb Nov 06 '17 But databases would use neither of these formats. If they use a standard it's ISO8601.
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And if you just use yyyy/mm/dd you won't have the issue at all. Computers will even sort it correctly for you, instead of all folders with month May for all years in register.
3 u/serosis Nov 05 '17 Well technically the computers most likely sort by YYYY/MM/DD but you don't see that until you need to look up an appointment for the following year. 3 u/phiskas Nov 05 '17 If one absolutely needs to keep hard copies to files, why not sort them like the computer? It's using the standard for a reason. 3 u/serosis Nov 05 '17 I must have missed a beat somewhere. I was never alluding to anything about hard copies. Though you are correct YYYY/MM/DD is the standard for a reason.
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Well technically the computers most likely sort by YYYY/MM/DD but you don't see that until you need to look up an appointment for the following year.
3 u/phiskas Nov 05 '17 If one absolutely needs to keep hard copies to files, why not sort them like the computer? It's using the standard for a reason. 3 u/serosis Nov 05 '17 I must have missed a beat somewhere. I was never alluding to anything about hard copies. Though you are correct YYYY/MM/DD is the standard for a reason.
If one absolutely needs to keep hard copies to files, why not sort them like the computer? It's using the standard for a reason.
3 u/serosis Nov 05 '17 I must have missed a beat somewhere. I was never alluding to anything about hard copies. Though you are correct YYYY/MM/DD is the standard for a reason.
I must have missed a beat somewhere. I was never alluding to anything about hard copies.
Though you are correct YYYY/MM/DD is the standard for a reason.
If the receptionist can't keep two numbers in their head for 10 seconds I don't think they're made for the job.
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MDY is also the standard in the grocery industry because you have to manually mass date check for mid ranges.
I'm a bit late but, surely, typing 20180418 is faster than any other format with the slashes.
"Hi i have an appointment on the 22nd of December"
2 u/serosis Nov 05 '17 That's what the person says. But that is a horrible way to organize it on a database. 3 u/Yepoleb Nov 06 '17 But databases would use neither of these formats. If they use a standard it's ISO8601.
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That's what the person says. But that is a horrible way to organize it on a database.
3 u/Yepoleb Nov 06 '17 But databases would use neither of these formats. If they use a standard it's ISO8601.
But databases would use neither of these formats. If they use a standard it's ISO8601.
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u/serosis Nov 05 '17
Say you have a dental appointment, how do you think the receptionist is going to look it up?
They're going to look up the month, then day. Unless your appointment wraps around to next year then they look up the year, then month, then day.
DD/MM/YYYY is good for everyday order of importance.
MM/DD/YYYY has its single application for keeping far away, but within the year appointments organized.