For sorting or filing, I agree. I think in day to day life, though, Day and month are way more significant. So I actually prefer DDMMYYYY for that.

I absolutely loath the American favorite: 8/9. Like fuck, is that August 9th, September 8th, or just a fraction??

Dd MMM YYYY

It is sensical for one use:

"So when is the event?"
"May 20th, 2024"

It's such a niche use, though

The overlap of iso-8601 and rfc-3339 is God's own, the regions outside are lower.

I believe this is still valid according to ISO 8601 so have an upvote. It also works fine in URLs after the host part.

If I had a forint for something matching order in Hungary and Japan, I would have 2 forints, which isn't a lot but its weird it happened twice. (Its the order of names and dates)

I use this for notes, and generally everything written; mainly for reference when looking back on old information. Today, whether I say Wednesday the 9th, or 2023-08-09, it's fairly inconsequential, but in 2-3 years if I have to reference a note, email or something else where I said today's date, I won't have to compare the date of the note to the calendar for that time period to see which 9th was on a Wednesday.

Everything you do now becomes history, so adapting to this format makes it easier when today becomes your history.

And programmers tend to go: "I don't need to comment my code, I know what it does" 😂

The most important part is the year.

I tried reading your comment right to left and was left even more confused.

Okay, hear me out.

With other numbers, non-date numbers, we put the numbers representing the most quantity to the left, and numbers representing the last quantity to the right, eg 1 hundred, ten and 1 would be 111, where the number representing 100 qty comes first from the left, and each position moving to the right, represents a smaller and smaller amount.

Since years are longer than months, which are longer than days, the YYYY-MM-DD format actually follows the same convention that we commonly use for all other numbering systems, big on the left, small on the right.

So why would the date be the exception?

Yeah, that's the one you use for filenames. Backup images and the likes.

Now that I think of it, this may actually be a pretty nice system to store files hierarchically by date.

Nobody puts Baby in a tertiary folder!

Not if you encode it using an exponent. One Planck time unit is roughly 1.8 x 10^-43^ seconds, so with an exponent of 2^128^ (roughly 3.4 x 10^38^) you could write a second as 54510 x 2^128^ TP

Also almost killed all computing in y2k

Stop right there criminal scum, you are not allow to publish original copyrighted works, you are stealing from the artist's mouth by squandering his market value !

So that's why normal people screenshot.

It's the modern version of the VHS or cassette tape.

if i write a date on paper i tend to go with 2, but yes

Some men just like to watch the world burn.

One might ponder: is it better to be forgotten or be forever remembered for attempting something silly?

https://xkcd.com/1179/
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This is some enigma date code shit.. nearly broke my head trying to work out my birthday

Edit: fuck I see why my birthday wasn't making sense now, you have the same digit of day and year

Time did not exist before this date

In Sweden we tend to use iso, except sometimes on "Best before" dates. It's always fun trying to figure out if your food is going bad by, for instance, the 10th of August or the 8th of October...

08.008.2028

Jan,Feb,Mar etc.

It's the standatized way to write the months in three letters. So Jan, Feb etc...

I think they either made a typo, or they meant like "Jan" "Feb" "Mar" etc.