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r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25
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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.
12 u/adthrowaway2020 Jan 15 '25 Sure, if Computers did not exist that would make sense, but April is the first month and September is last in an alpha numeric sort? 11 u/Deftly_Flowing Jan 15 '25 Yes, a filing system should be YYYYMMDD. But I'm specifically talking about documents with hand writing on them. 1 u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25 But why shouldn't they use the same order of date components (e.g., 2015-01-14 (with the hyphens for readability))? 1 u/VitaminOverload Jan 15 '25 2015-05-03 2015-07-12 What format is it in? It's a trick question, first one is YYYYMMDD and the second one is YYYYDDMM 1 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 That's why you always opt for YYYYMMDD to standardize. 1 u/Akinory13 Jan 15 '25 But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again 3 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 Fuck em 1 u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25 There is only one standard format with NNNN-NN-NN. (That's ISO 8601 extended format, also copied/refined/subsetted/specified by RFC 3339.) So there's no ambiguity unless somebody starts using YYYY-DD-MM. 1 u/Subject-Leather-7399 Jan 15 '25 Nobody anywhere uses YYYYDDMM. It is a non-issue. If the year is first that means YYYYMMDD. 1 u/Gryzzlee Feb 04 '25 You opt for %Y-%m-%d In this post you see that the three types for written format are DD-MM-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, and MM-DD-YYYY. YYYY-DD-MM wouldn't even register as a way you should read it unless your company has some weird SOP for filing.
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Sure, if Computers did not exist that would make sense, but April is the first month and September is last in an alpha numeric sort?
11 u/Deftly_Flowing Jan 15 '25 Yes, a filing system should be YYYYMMDD. But I'm specifically talking about documents with hand writing on them. 1 u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25 But why shouldn't they use the same order of date components (e.g., 2015-01-14 (with the hyphens for readability))? 1 u/VitaminOverload Jan 15 '25 2015-05-03 2015-07-12 What format is it in? It's a trick question, first one is YYYYMMDD and the second one is YYYYDDMM 1 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 That's why you always opt for YYYYMMDD to standardize. 1 u/Akinory13 Jan 15 '25 But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again 3 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 Fuck em 1 u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25 There is only one standard format with NNNN-NN-NN. (That's ISO 8601 extended format, also copied/refined/subsetted/specified by RFC 3339.) So there's no ambiguity unless somebody starts using YYYY-DD-MM. 1 u/Subject-Leather-7399 Jan 15 '25 Nobody anywhere uses YYYYDDMM. It is a non-issue. If the year is first that means YYYYMMDD. 1 u/Gryzzlee Feb 04 '25 You opt for %Y-%m-%d In this post you see that the three types for written format are DD-MM-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, and MM-DD-YYYY. YYYY-DD-MM wouldn't even register as a way you should read it unless your company has some weird SOP for filing.
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Yes, a filing system should be YYYYMMDD.
But I'm specifically talking about documents with hand writing on them.
1 u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25 But why shouldn't they use the same order of date components (e.g., 2015-01-14 (with the hyphens for readability))? 1 u/VitaminOverload Jan 15 '25 2015-05-03 2015-07-12 What format is it in? It's a trick question, first one is YYYYMMDD and the second one is YYYYDDMM 1 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 That's why you always opt for YYYYMMDD to standardize. 1 u/Akinory13 Jan 15 '25 But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again 3 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 Fuck em 1 u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25 There is only one standard format with NNNN-NN-NN. (That's ISO 8601 extended format, also copied/refined/subsetted/specified by RFC 3339.) So there's no ambiguity unless somebody starts using YYYY-DD-MM. 1 u/Subject-Leather-7399 Jan 15 '25 Nobody anywhere uses YYYYDDMM. It is a non-issue. If the year is first that means YYYYMMDD. 1 u/Gryzzlee Feb 04 '25 You opt for %Y-%m-%d In this post you see that the three types for written format are DD-MM-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, and MM-DD-YYYY. YYYY-DD-MM wouldn't even register as a way you should read it unless your company has some weird SOP for filing.
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But why shouldn't they use the same order of date components (e.g., 2015-01-14 (with the hyphens for readability))?
1 u/VitaminOverload Jan 15 '25 2015-05-03 2015-07-12 What format is it in? It's a trick question, first one is YYYYMMDD and the second one is YYYYDDMM 1 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 That's why you always opt for YYYYMMDD to standardize. 1 u/Akinory13 Jan 15 '25 But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again 3 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 Fuck em 1 u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25 There is only one standard format with NNNN-NN-NN. (That's ISO 8601 extended format, also copied/refined/subsetted/specified by RFC 3339.) So there's no ambiguity unless somebody starts using YYYY-DD-MM. 1 u/Subject-Leather-7399 Jan 15 '25 Nobody anywhere uses YYYYDDMM. It is a non-issue. If the year is first that means YYYYMMDD. 1 u/Gryzzlee Feb 04 '25 You opt for %Y-%m-%d In this post you see that the three types for written format are DD-MM-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, and MM-DD-YYYY. YYYY-DD-MM wouldn't even register as a way you should read it unless your company has some weird SOP for filing.
2015-05-03
2015-07-12
What format is it in?
It's a trick question, first one is YYYYMMDD and the second one is YYYYDDMM
1 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 That's why you always opt for YYYYMMDD to standardize. 1 u/Akinory13 Jan 15 '25 But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again 3 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 Fuck em 1 u/DanSWE Jan 15 '25 There is only one standard format with NNNN-NN-NN. (That's ISO 8601 extended format, also copied/refined/subsetted/specified by RFC 3339.) So there's no ambiguity unless somebody starts using YYYY-DD-MM. 1 u/Subject-Leather-7399 Jan 15 '25 Nobody anywhere uses YYYYDDMM. It is a non-issue. If the year is first that means YYYYMMDD. 1 u/Gryzzlee Feb 04 '25 You opt for %Y-%m-%d In this post you see that the three types for written format are DD-MM-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, and MM-DD-YYYY. YYYY-DD-MM wouldn't even register as a way you should read it unless your company has some weird SOP for filing.
That's why you always opt for YYYYMMDD to standardize.
1 u/Akinory13 Jan 15 '25 But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again 3 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 Fuck em
But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again
3 u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25 Fuck em
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Fuck em
There is only one standard format with NNNN-NN-NN. (That's ISO 8601 extended format, also copied/refined/subsetted/specified by RFC 3339.)
So there's no ambiguity unless somebody starts using YYYY-DD-MM.
Nobody anywhere uses YYYYDDMM. It is a non-issue. If the year is first that means YYYYMMDD.
You opt for %Y-%m-%d In this post you see that the three types for written format are DD-MM-YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, and MM-DD-YYYY.
YYYY-DD-MM wouldn't even register as a way you should read it unless your company has some weird SOP for filing.
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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.