| ▲ | TimK65 4 hours ago |
| So thankful that we use the correct date format (yyyy-mm-dd) in Sweden. |
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| ▲ | My_Name 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Can I just say that, as someone born and bred in the UK, YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct way to display a date wherever you live. Anything else is as bad as using mm:hh... |
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| ▲ | Pooge 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Anything else is as bad as using mm:hh... Please tell me that's not a thing. | | |
| ▲ | dhosek 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It is now. | | |
| ▲ | ben_w 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | In a moment of whimsy I briefly considered a date format where digits were sorted alphabetically. 2026-07-02-16-31-52 -> -----00011222235667 Hopefully it will remain a nonsense and never be seen in the wild, unlike the phone number field which I found on a real website which responded to scroll events to increase and decrease the value it contained. | | |
| ▲ | card_zero 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Well that's just totally ambiguous. What you should do instead is treat the date as one long number and present its factors, for instance 2⁴⋅11⋅7649⋅15050023, much more practical. | |
| ▲ | rich_sasha 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | How about just sort the numbers from biggest to smallest? 2026-07-02 16:45 becomes 2026-45-16-06-02 Bonus points for using a very confusing separator... Maybe {? | |
| ▲ | debesyla 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wait, can this format be transformed back to the "normal" format? If so, then it could be kinda viable for some operations... :thinking_emoji: | | |
| ▲ | jstanley 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No, it can't be transformed back because it has lost information. 2025-06 and 2026-05 both have the same digits, for example. | |
| ▲ | mkopinsky 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | No, it's an unreversible hash function. I use this for passwords - no one will ever be able to figure out what ehntru2 was originally. | |
| ▲ | ben_w 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | No, because "12".sort_by_digits() == "21".sort_by_digits() |
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| ▲ | marcellus23 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| as an American this is my favorite format. Sortable, and the mm-dd order reflects the standard American way of writing month+day, and yyyy is unambiguously the year since it's 4 letters. Best of both worlds. |
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| ▲ | WithinReason 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's also the ISO standard since it sorts correctly |
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| ▲ | bmacho 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wrong decimal tho. Why isn't there an en-EU or en-ISO locale that has: - yyyy-mm-dd
- SI units
- 1,234.56 number format
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| ▲ | brnt an hour ago | parent [-] | | The European Commission published its own language guide. In terms of English it's only a small deviation from en-GB, but my first thought was indeed: when can I set en-EU? |
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| ▲ | fmajid 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've taken to using the Swedish locale for that very reason (French-American living in the UK). |
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| ▲ | hk1337 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The superior date format. Superior to all others. |
