Idiot Americans who think that mm.dd.yyyy has any right to exist

It fixes a sorting issue (sort of), but so yyyy.mm.dd.

So yeah, useless as the imperial system.

There is a correct way!

https://xkcd.com/1179/

@devphobe ISO 8601, I.e. The One True Date Format

Thank. You.

I've decided I don't work with dates anymore. Timestamp it IDGAF.

@JS96 Now I want to know the only reason it was preferable to use that sh.

@IHateForALiving I timestamp everything in my databases. It's just easier, especially when combined with something like moment.js

@IHateForALiving And what if you have to work with history records, older then 1970-01-01?

@myss the world before 1970-01-01 wasn't worth living in anyway.

@c3r38r170 They were angry at the British.

Idiot everyone and their timezones, thinking 12 noon has to be when the sun is up.

This day in the year of our Lord 2021 February 17th.

See, if they hadn't stuck the fucking year on the end it would have been fine!

Also, fuck you from America! ;-) In the nicest possible way.

Internally I want things to be year, month, day. But all my displays say month, day, year... Sometimes I cry...

@spongessuck Stupid timezones policies led to energy crisis in my country several times, so it actually is important that the sun is up at 12 noon.

They're the same idiots who still use feet and pounds. I'm surprised they've survived that long

@devphobe I've had some SQL queries in the past being so much easier, conceptually, when I dropped dates and started using timestamps. Since then, I've decided I'd always work with timestamps as default, and convert to a date where needed.

Epoch mother fucker.

(But I can live with ISO-8601)

@HiFiWiFiSciFi I have a library for process control that the epoc is 1600-01-01. I have to convert from real dates to library dates and back. Not hard to do, but was real confusing when I first started sending it dates.

It does because poo on you

This includes devrant app btw

@Demolishun as long as the month is in the middle I'm happy

I prefer the yyyy-mm-dd HH:ii:ss for sorting

The good thing is that every time I’m seeing slashes, like in 5/1/2021, I know that I‘m dealing with bullshit date format. So, it’s very easy to spot.

@Lensflare I'm not sure if you know about this but dd/mm/yyyy is common too

@electrineer There is a special place in hell for people who use that. mm/dd/yyyy is bad enough. But to have one that is ambiguous with that...true evil.

@Demolishun that's why the iso standard is the only correct option

@eo2875
It was tip and tuck for 4 wretched years and he's still around. On the bright side, MUWAHAHA, he's destroying the Rethuglican Party as I hoped soon after Comey annointed him 11 days before the election.

Why not?

Mm: yyyy: DD? Or using Unix timestamp?

@johnmelodyme what is the reason mm: yyyy: dd. is so much better than everything else that users of other formats should convert to it?

@homo-lorens @homo-lorens I get this from my client's cli app.

@johnmelodyme cool but I prefer dd🍿😮yy😎🍫m🍦m👙🍌yy

@electrineer wow

@johnmelodyme My condolences.

@electrineer no, I didn’t know. Where did you see that?

@Lensflare https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Damn! Now I can’t use my bullshit spotter anymore :/

@JS96 Does it fix it? Won't 12.01.2020 be higher than 11.01.2021?

@cucatrap that was the reason of my “sort of” 😝

@JS96 I really don't see how a "sort of" solution is any different from a "not at all" solution when there is an actual solution.

It all went wrong after BC