this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 100 points 11 months ago (6 children)

YYYY-MM-DD (honestly without dashes) is the only helpful format.

If you name all your files with this as a suffix then your files automatically sort versions of themselves in order when sorting by name.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Their assumption is that the filename is the same otherwise e.g. myNotes20231122.txt

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Oh I see, thanks. Good alternative to final3_release2.

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