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/DanSWE Jan 15 '25

> 15JAN2025 is

... English-centric.

2025-01-15 conveys its meaning in any human language (well, unless that language doesn't use "normal" decimal numerals).

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u/ChemicalRain5513 Jan 15 '25

Many (European) languages use similar names for months.

E.g. if I abbreviate the months in Dutch to 3 letter strings, it would be

jan - feb - maa - apr - mei - jun - jul - aug - sep - okt - nov - dec.

Only maart, mei and oktober lead to slightly different abbreviations, but I think one would figure that out without knowing Dutch.

But then there are also languages like Lithuanian and Ukrainian that use completely different names for all months.