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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I feel like YYYYMMDD (without dashes) might be a format in ISO 8601, but I'm fully expecting to be corrected soon. But I didn't say think, I said feel. YYYYMMDD has a similar vibe to YYYY-MM-DD, ya feel me?

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 22 points 2 days ago

Is that the same guy who wrote Standards? tsk, tsk.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I work at a global company an in my team there are people from 5 continents. we use 27-Feb-23. It's the only way nobody gets confused and it's only 1 char more. (Tbf nobody would be confused only my boss that is american lol)

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 17 points 2 days ago (11 children)

RFC-3336

I figured there were problems with existing calendars, so I created a new one to supersede all others. That reminds me, though: I need to declare the "official" format for the calendar, to avoid all this nonsense.

I see a window of opportunity, here. Normally, there's no chance for any calendar revision to succeed in adoption; however, I think if I use the right words with the President, I could get it pushed into adoption by fiat. Y'all had best start learning my new calendar to get ahead of everyone else.

Note for the humorously disadvantaged: the Saturnalia Calendar is a mechanism through which I'm playing with a new (to me) programming language. I am under no disillusion that anyone else will see the obvious advantages and clear superiority of the Saturnalia Calendar, much less adopt it. And no comments from the peanut gallery about the name! What, did you expect me to actually spend time thinking of a catchy name when a perfectly good, mostly unused one already existed?

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[–] dzso@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a Hungarian, I approve.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (35 children)

I regularly work with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans. So many times each group defaults to their own format and mistakes occur I gave up on all the formats listed by OP. If i have to write a date in correspondence its like: Feb 27th 2013. No ambiguity. No one has ever challenged me on it either. It is universally understood.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I prefer 27 Feb 2013, it's how my work writes dates.

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