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ISO-8601 over all other formats. 2023-08-09T21:11:00Z
Simple, sortable, intuitive.
Awful to actually read, though. Using T as a delimiter is mental... At least the hyphen provides some white space
Why are you splitting and delimiting a date object? Convert it to a shallower object if that's what you need
While you are definitely right, I and many others use yyyy-mm-dd outside of software. And that's when the T becomes super lame.
Honestly, even a lowercase t.
Lower case t is rfc3339 compatible https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
You get used to it.
Too long. Even 2023-08-09 is too long for me. But since I like the readability I use 2023.08.09. Less pixels and more readable then 20230809.
You should be localizing it before displaying to users. Let their browser/platform decide.
Personally I can’t stand the format you’ve shown. I also can’t stand periods being used for phone numbers, e.g.
555.555.5555.Although I actually like that format a lot, we use characters to help elicit context. 2023/08/09 is fine since we have been using / for dates for so long. Also it blows my mind why people don’t use : in 24 hour times. 16:40 is great, no am pm bullshit and you immediately know I’m talking time.
Same number of pixels, they are just different colours. But you still paid for them.
Good luck using colons in a filename.
Linux has been able to handle that since the 90s.
Tough luck if you are using NTFS file system. All my homies use EXT4.
btrfs/zfs > ext4
I mean yes, but I haven't used any of those yet, so I can't fully agree.