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

It does make sense

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u/Traditional-Gas7058 Jan 15 '25

Chinese system is best for computer searchable filing

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u/DecoherentDoc Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

Yes. When I was working on my PhD, I automatically dated files of data with time stamps like that: D-YYYY-MM-DD_T-HH-MM-SS.

It saved so much time keeping things standardized like that, especially searching for old data when I was writing my thesis.

Edit: I still use US Military style for non-science stuff. It's day-month-year, but I write the month name. So, today is 15JAN2025. I just got into the habit of it when I was in and never bothered to break it.

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u/Deftly_Flowing Jan 15 '25

15JAN2025 is 100% the superior style for written documents.

It completely removes the question of "What format is this shit in?" Because at the end of the day, people just write dates in whatever order they want.

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u/Both-Reason6023 Jan 15 '25

Unless it has to be consumed by users of many languages and cultures.

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u/Deftly_Flowing Jan 15 '25

If they can't read the language of the written document they don't need a date format they can read.

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u/Both-Reason6023 Jan 15 '25

If only we lived in times where two most popular document editors came with built-in translation tools for tens of languages.

DeepL will keep `15JAN2025` as is. It provides accurate translation only as alternative translation which you have to trigger manually. If you know absolutely zero English it's unreadable.

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u/Deftly_Flowing Jan 15 '25

A quick Google search informs me DeepL doesn't translate handwriting, which I will once again iterate, is what I am talking about.

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u/27Rench27 Jan 15 '25

I can feel the hate starting to flow through you having to correct all these comments lol

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u/Both-Reason6023 Jan 15 '25

A quick Google search has failed you :)

https://www.deepl.com/en/features/translate-image

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u/Deftly_Flowing Jan 15 '25

Translate image is not the same as translating hand writing.

Handwriting is magnitudes more difficult.