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Yep and it needs to use hyphens and not slashes. It helps avoid missed typos or mis-reads in some situations, especially if hand-written.
and it's perfectly sortable
oh yeah. There are numerous benefits to the format itself, outside the question of hyphens vs slashes.
I find the sortability quite satisfying, but also as somebody living in the US, I also like that it's unambiguous regardless of my audience. Hell, half the time I see people hand-write a date on something they don't even use a year.
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FAIL
yyyy-mm-dd
Yep. Doing that joke and landing on anything but ISO-8601 would be a huge red flag for me.
Being able to sort numerically and have it also be in chronological order is sooo cool.
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ISO datetime, let's goooooo YYYYMMDDHHmmSS
ISO 8601 or gtfo
ISO-8601 or RFC-3339 is the way. It's not about which is better, but about that it would be confusing to use MMDDYYYY or DDMMYYYY since the other exists.
I feel like DD/MM/YYYY is the same as doing: ss:mm:HH and I find that confusing.
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YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
Please use any kind of separation character or I'm gonna lose my mind
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I proper shit post would have suggested “mm/dd/yyyy”.
The problem is not the format itself, its just sometimes we don't know which format is used: 07/07/26
Edit: This was probably a bad example, because it does not matter which format, as it is clear it is 7th of July 2026 in both possible formats. A better example: 01/02/26
The one that ends us with f... I mean ISO 8601 of course
Why? dd/mm/yyyy isnt practical. If you are asking someone to check out part of a book, you wouldn't say "paragraph 4, chapter 3", you start broad and become more specific. Calendars, at least in the US, are organized by month. You have turn turn to the month page before finding the date, it makes more sense to say month first because its the first piece of information that you need (unless its a more rare case that you are talking about an event in another year).
Im sure programmers prefer something different, but humans shouldn't have to communicate differently to make computing easier. Computing exists to make human life easier, not the other way around.
mm/dd/yyyy is horrendous and inconsistent, you can argue that yyyy/mm/dd is correct, but for daily use dd/mm/yyyy is way better
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ITT: people saying one thing is better than any other without thinking of context.
If I want to know today's date ISO 8601 isn't a good answer. And if I put stuff in folders by date then DD-MM-YYYY is a real bad way to do it.
But MM-DD-YYYY is the worst one no matter the context.
I like YYYY-MM-DD because then I don't have to figure out half the time if they used MM-DD-YYYY or if they were sane.
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Month first is better because when someone says the date aloud, they start with the month "August 5th, 2026"
For organizing my stuff I use yyyy/mm/dd because in my opinion it's much better for that. Otherwise dd/mm/yyyy.
We grew up on MM/DD/YYYY but all our computer stuff is YYYY/MM/DD however now that we live in EU we use DD/MM/YYYY and still YYYY/MM/DD for files in pc
it's either DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD.
4/Aug/2026
Already saw 1 person write 4/7/26. Writing that 3-4 letters for the month both solves the day/month vs month/day issue, and the off chance someone makes mistake of the month number
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Oogh. Such rage bait.
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