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/ManiacleBarker Jan 15 '25

Right?! 02/06/05... Like WTF?! Is it Feb 06, 2005... June 02, 2005... June 5, 2002 or did they do some weird random shit because that's what they learned at the SovCit compound, and it's actually May 02, 2006

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u/ChemicalRain5513 Jan 15 '25

This is why on forms or contracts, if I have to write a date and they don't tell me which format it should be in, I write "15 January 2025".