There are several people in the comments saying they have to use 27 Feb 2013 because they work with people all over the world. I’m really confused - what does that solve that 2013-02-13 does not? I know that not every language spells months the English way so “Dec” or “May” aren’t universal. Is there some country that regularly puts year day month that would break using ISO 8601 or RFC 3339?
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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27 Feb 2013 is unambiguous- regardless of where you're from or how you write your dates, you can't confuse 2013 for the month or day, you can't confuse Feb for a day or week, and if you can't figure 27 out, then we have bigger problems!
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Disregard ISO8601. Acquire RFC3339. You can leave off the T if you want to, or replace Z with +00:00.
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I'm working in an international company with colleagues around the world. To avoid confusion, I switched to using this format:
27-FEB-2013
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This format can fuck off. I prefer the unambiguous format 2FEB2013.
Checkmate, date snobs.
And yes, nations are free to use their appropriate abbreviations for the months.
Nothing irritates me more than the "01-May-25", "DD-Mon-YY" i.e. the way Oracle databases format dates by default.
Oh? It's my favorite. Almost no ambiguity at all.
From my reading, it's quite ambiguous. It could be 2025-05-01 or 2001-05-25.
DB2 has been using ISO dates by default for decades.
Until microsoft makes that the default down in the lower right corner, I don't think we'll make much headway. I've been trying to get my office to do their dated files in YYYYMMDDHHMM for years. I do mine that way but I can't get anybody else to comply. This meme lists that as a discouraged format, I guess the dashes are ISO but I don't care about the dashes. I would accept doing YYYY-MM-DD over MMDDYYYY any time though.
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Upset we didn't get a "Half a score, two years, two months, and four days ago..."
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ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04.
But… that’s not the right way. Are you saying the ISO8601 violates ISO8601?
- so, apparently not I just whooshed, I didn’t even noticed the dates are ambiguous.
The joke is that they've not been given in ISO8601 format, and also that they're both ambiguous. For the second one, we can't even tell which of the ends is the year.
Honestly Randall absolutely would put the year in the middle just to fuck with us
Publication 1988-06-05, latest amendment 2004-12-01.
I almost expected the two dates to use different formats, but no, they're just both "the American way".
Well you can only cram in so many jokes at once. Would have been funny though
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You found the joke
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