I came up with YYYYMMDD for file names all on my own 20-30 years ago – I was most disappointed when I discovered that heaps of others had come up with it before me. 🙂
Every night I deal with this asshatery filling out the forms for hazmat shipments, the 1st set of entries wants DDMMYYYY, the 2nd set wants MMDDYY, and the final set needs MMDDYYYY.
I soooooo would love standardization across regulatory groups
ISO-8601 says so too
It’s DD-MM-YYYY in most of Europe i think… (At least in Norway)
Yup.
But hey, they don’t want the metric system either.
Too french.
YYYY-MM-DD, DD-MM-YYYY, anything is better than “the ‘Murican way”.
I came up with YYYYMMDD for file names all on my own 20-30 years ago – I was most disappointed when I discovered that heaps of others had come up with it before me. 🙂
same here, back in win95 when sorting by title would result in all sorts of fucked up things.
I have a feeling you’re not talking about win95 though, lol
Every night I deal with this asshatery filling out the forms for hazmat shipments, the 1st set of entries wants DDMMYYYY, the 2nd set wants MMDDYY, and the final set needs MMDDYYYY.
I soooooo would love standardization across regulatory groups
isn’t that what ISO-8601 is intended to correct? sounds like you’re working with some vendors that aren’t compliant with ISO standards.
someone needs to get fined for that!