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US date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets fl
by pbhj 17y ago
US date order always makes me laugh - it's like people looked at date order and thought if the day comes before the month that will be the European way, lets flip it. Then they realised that would be YYYY-mm-dd and so be ISO standard order, dang can't have that, hey lets have a mixture.
I know it didn't happen this way but some sort of logical order would be good.
- Afton 17y agoThe order is logical, it maps to the way many americans speak. E.g. July 4th, 2000, which is always spoken as ... er... the 4th of july, 2009. Well. uh. Bad example.
- compay 17y agoA logical justification could be found for any order. It's just arbitrary.
- jmackinn 17y agoIt would be good to hear a logical justification for the mm-dd-yyyy. I'm not sure I can come up with one. It makes it hard to search and it doesn't follow any sequential order. yyyy-mm-dd actually goes up by one each day. Try it next time you have to number give files a date stamp and you'll find it makes your life a lot simpler.
- pbhj 17y agoOf course I meant a justification for the mixed up ordering as being of greater utility (more easily parsed, understood, less confused, more easily read, better sorted, more standardised with other users) than the other common orderings. Let the word go forth ... your logical justification please?
- callahad 17y agoI've taken to writing %d %b %Y when possible. It's unambiguous and provides sane ordering. And somehow I find it easier to map from %b to an ordinal than vice versa.
- pbhj 17y agoThats: %d - 2 digit day number by month; %b - 3 letter month name; %Y - 4 digit year CE; for those who don't recall so well.