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240 points

Nothing beats ISO 8601, YYYY-MM-DD

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86 points

RFC 3339! ISO 8601 has way too many weird formats that are allowed like today would be 2023-W41-2. See for example here.

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27 points

I feel offended - W%W-%w is my preferred way of noting down dates :D

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20 points

Whoa, that’s a cool website!

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16 points

It’s really pleasing seeing the seconds all change in unison!

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17 points

Great, now I need to memorize “RFC 3339”, because I officially have a new favorite date format. Thank you!

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6 points

Fortunately this one is easy:

three threes equals 9 3339

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4 points

RFC 3339 when you need the basics, ISO 8601 when you need something more niche. Some applications genuinely need to view the year as weeks and days of the week instead of months and days of the month.

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43 points

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00

THE ONE TRUE FORMAT

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5 points

Well, the standard provides various formats, such as YYYY-\WWW.

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2 points

Does the T just signify that Time starts after it? I’ve never really examined the full UTC format, YYYY-MM-DD has always been enough for my uses.

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2 points

The T stands for the timezone.

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BCE or AD?

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CE

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39 points

I am fine with any format that puts the month between year and day.

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1 point

Same, but MSD->LSD is nice in general for the alphanumeric ordering

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21 points

This is the way.

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17 points

The most logical format, especially for digital files.

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14 points

This is the way.

Put the most significant digits first. Always.

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6 points

100%

  • alphabetical order = chronological order
  • unambiguous regardless of locale
  • easy to read/parse by either machine or human
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2 points

My head hurts

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