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Pi day is a fake holiday created by people who don't know how to format dates. Also, relevant xkcd.
YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)
DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.
Interesting. I prefer hyphens to improve readability
Luckily for you that's the iso standard haha
I wouldn't mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don't believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.
You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you're an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).
The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.
Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha
TIL XKCD has a mobile site
ISO format is the only correct way to format dates.
Aw yeah! UTC gang!
If you want a computer to sort dates in a sane manner, year-month-day is the only option. Anything else is madness.
Biggest to smallest - makes it easy to sort by date for things like folders of photos. And other things, I’m sure.
Biggest to smallest fails though for years which are smaller than the months, and for months which are smaller than the days.
e.g. Dec 1st 2003, would be written 12/03/01 biggest to smallest
I don't think you've thought this through, and frankly I question your mother's sexual decency.
Four digit years are required, as are dashes. 2012-03-01
Do you even ISO, bro?
nah
Biggest is referring to length of time, not number. Years are bigger than months are bigger than days, temporally.
nah
I mean biggest to smallest in units of time (year/month/day)
nah
Ok
why you guys downvoting this?
this is so obviously satire
It's harmless fun, come downvote with us!
Thats because they dont have the same starting spot
5045874580890/165951270140/13829272511
DDDDDDDDDDDDD/MMMMMMMMMMMM/YYYYYYYYYYY is the best date format
Finally, a fellow scholar!