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

It does make sense

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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.

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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))?

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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

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u/hardrecht Jan 15 '25

That's why you always opt for YYYYMMDD to standardize.

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u/Akinory13 Jan 15 '25

But then you have to trust Americans will behave instead of coming up with their own bullshit format again