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JS96184934yIt fixes a sorting issue (sort of), but so yyyy.mm.dd.
So yeah, useless as the imperial system. -
@IHateForALiving I timestamp everything in my databases. It's just easier, especially when combined with something like moment.js
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myss45094y@IHateForALiving And what if you have to work with history records, older then 1970-01-01?
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Idiot everyone and their timezones, thinking 12 noon has to be when the sun is up.
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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.
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eo287540064yThey're the same idiots who still use feet and pounds. I'm surprised they've survived that long
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
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@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.
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@johnmelodyme what is the reason mm: yyyy: dd. is so much better than everything else that users of other formats should convert to it?
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@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.
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