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Happy 5th of May! (lemmy.world)

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DD/MM/YYYY FTW 🤘

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (4 children)

YYYY-MM-DD is the only way.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ISO-8601 FTW

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ELI5 ISO-8601

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Best way to write the date. Year then month then day using numbers. Allows for easy sorting in computer for people and also no gets confused like they do in other systems. It's an international standard handled by the ISO group

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

it also just make sense, we already put the more significant number on the left side when writing numbers anyways. MM/dd/YYYY is more like writing one hundred and twenty three as 231

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've grown accustomed to dates in this format, because of software engineering. Yesterday I had to write out MM/DD/YY on some paperwork, and it broke my brain for a good 30s trying to remember the format.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Oh I fully agree but I wouldn't let it get in the way of a decent meme

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

MM-YYYY-DD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

YY-MM-DD-YY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

YD-MY-DYMY

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to share a fifth with May!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just don't invite Clarkson.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

May and Hammond maybe, but not Clarkson

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I would definitely have fun spending an evening with him, in the same way it'd be fun watching a giant dumpster fire or some kind of natural disaster.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

dd/mm/yyyy is broke
yyyy-mm-dd is B E S P O K E
ISO-8601 FTW

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

DD Mon YYYY for human readability, YYYY-MM-DD for computer readability.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

DD-MM-YYYY itches me wrong the same way as when people tell me their phone number with seven digits AND THEN give me the area code as if I still ONLY have a landline that I ONLY use to place local calls e_e

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s the forth tho. What am I supposed to do with the extra 5% of May?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Welcome to the future! We've been expecting you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alright, I'll admit. Who is May?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sir Brian Harold May CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, animal rights activist and astrophysicist. He achieved worldwide fame as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Queen, which he co-founded with singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor. -Wikipedia

ETA: so a legend basically :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Cinco de mayo?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does this represent 1/5 of May by weight, volume, image area, or just a linear 1/5 of the height of the image?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A fifth of his skills.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Good skills or bad skills?