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Which drives me nuts! The month doesn't change for 4 whole weeks! Why is it first? I want the info that contains the most variation displayed first so my eyes don't have to glaze past useless info every time.
Year/month/day is superior when reading full dates, because it's the least ambiguous. If I only need day and month, I'd rather use month's full or shortened name (like 27 Sep). Ambiguity is the real enemy here, not any particular order
ISO 8601 gang unite!
RFC-3339 gang gang
I scanned through this and my takeaway is that it's just defining a formal grammar for iso 8601. Did I miss anything important?
Kind of. As I understand it, ISO-8601 is also super broad and allows for a bunch of different potential formats and I think durations.
For instance,
2009-W01-1is a valid ISO-8601 date, meaning2008-12-31(!) which is pretty weird.True, thats how my laptop displays the date. It never even mentions the month because I see that enough on other sources. I guess I just hate how month first is the default where I live more than anything. It perfectly sums up the subpar optimacy of the USA. Shit could be better, but its just not.
¿And don't you hate how US punctuation is at the end? ¿If you read an entire sentence, but you don't even know it is a question until you're at the end, then how do you know which intonation to use? ¡English is subpar and something should be done about that!
Don't even get me started on the three languages in a trench coat we call English.
¡At least two of those languages have the same problem!
Year-Month-Day is also my go-to for naming files (at least in systems that don’t have file versioning) because it allows Name sort to list things chronologically. Just have every version of the same file have the same name, then append Year-Month-Day to the end.
I work with a lot of bespoke systems that use proprietary files, so file versioning with something like Google Drive or OneDrive goes right out the window. But Year-Month-Day makes it easy to maintain some semblance of organization.
It must be tiring at work waiting for the clock to finally strike 00:5pm.
See? Now I dont have to skip the hour when looking for the minutes that constantly change.
Or, as millions of people have done, you could learn to read from right to left.
Now that is what I call optimization.
Then this must be the year 3202 for you.