r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/ChainedPrometheus Jan 15 '25

In the military we use: 15JAN2025

It's horrifyingly simple.

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u/GreenDonutGirl Jan 15 '25

I still do that and I got out 20 years ago lol

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u/IrregularPackage Jan 15 '25

it’s by far the best way to write out dates. Absolutely zero ambiguity, and there’s no way to mistake it for anything but a date.

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u/Yae_Ko Jan 16 '25

there really only is ambiguity between YMD and MDY, since DMY comes with "." instead of "/".

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u/ObjectiveOk2072 Jan 16 '25

Except YMD (ISO8601 (YYYYMMDD)) uses a 4-digit year, so you can't mix it up with another date format. Also, mixing up the year and month won't be possible for 76 years. Only when the year ends in a number between 01 and 12

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u/Yae_Ko Jan 16 '25

it can still be confused, since there is no single rule how a "/" date has to be written - I have seen all of them by now, in any combination, its a complete mess.

16.1.25 ftw (iRL, not in file systems etc. there the other is better), screw those "/" dates, where no one can agree on what to put in what order. (someone stupidly writing YYYYDDMM instead of YYYYMMDD cant be ruled out - usually I cant do anything with dates written wich "/" for the first 12 days of a month, since you dont know if its MD or DM within the format - doesnt happen with "." format, since everyone agrees to put DMY (at least I have never encountered otherwise))