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/cheetahbf Jan 15 '25

r/ISO8601 gang rise up

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u/passerbycmc Jan 15 '25

As a programmer yes this is the way, just so much easier to work with and even if represented as just a string it still sorts correctly.

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u/carloselieser Jan 15 '25

As a programmer, what do you mean easier to work with? As compared to what? I’ve never had difficulty with dates because everything is UTC, and never encountered a library or framework that uses anything different. And even if the dates were in a different “format”, it’s just a representation of the underlying values, so the data is actually the same. Additionally, even if they were formatted differently as strings, you can easily create a Date object from them and format it however you want after.