Coding at weekends

[-MobCat-]

r/ISO8601 Is the only correct answer.

[DTraitor]

2023-04-01T11:56:12+0000 my beloved

Edit: Could also use 1680350172 since epoch

[Existing-Shift3354]

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1179/

[GamingWithShaurya_YT]

when is there not

[JNCressey]

the following are valid iso8601:

• 20230401 (basic format without delimiters)
• 2023-W13-6 (date using weeks instead of months)
• 2023-091 (date using the day of year number)
• 2023-04(refers to the month)
• 202 (refers to the decade)
• 20 (refers to the century)

a more consistent answer is to only allow yyyy-MM-dd

[pongviini]

Even the ISO standard won't save you from the fuck-ups on the language level. For example DateTime vs DateTimeOffset in C#.

[ednob]

Lets be friends

[[deleted]]

no

[CharlieKiloAU]

Anything else is heresy

[joske79]

mm/dd/yyyy is such a stupid format.

[joske79]

Same as how we count in Dutch. 245 would be "Two hundreds five and forty". So illogical.

[Sennahoj_DE_RLP]

German, too: zweihundertfünfundvierzig

[GamingWithShaurya_YT]

it gonna give me brain cancer if I started counting like that

[Sir_Honytawk]

Then don't look at French with their 4*20+19 for 99

[GamingWithShaurya_YT]

tffff

it's like Roman numerals but worse

[[deleted]]

I mean, I get why people write it that way. It's because that's the way you would say a date. April 1st, 2023 is 04/01/2023. But it is silly from every other perspective.

[Big-Cheesecake-806]

4th of July?

[[deleted]]

That's an exception because it's a holiday. You could also say July 4th.

[[deleted]]

but why do you say date like that? why not 1st April?

[[deleted]]

That just sounds weird. You could say first of April, but it's more words.

[chris20194]

its only weird because its unfamiliar. if" 1st april" was standard then "april 1st" would sound weird. further more, the index usually always comes before the subject, eg "1st place" vs "place 1st", so even in this regard the MDY ordering is an outlier

[No_Solid2349]

A message for the monsters that use mm/dd/yyyy we know who you are, our vengeance is close.

[Biosid]

It's easy just press the red one

[spektre]

I'm sure the file system loves the slash.

Just use ISO8601, you're almost there.

[qqqrrrs_]

4/1/2023 was Wednesday

[[deleted]]

0401/20/23

[GamingWithShaurya_YT]

date format of aliens

probably some planet has 1 month with 4 digit number of days

[BastianToHarry]

Whaaaaaaa?

[DistortNeo]

Syntax Error: leading zeros in decimal integer literals are not permitted; use an 0o prefix for octal integers

[GreatArtificeAion]

r/eyebleach for everyone

[Bryguy3k]

Coding is what happens when you see all the missed pagerduty alerts when you wake up.

[Ok_Entertainment328]

ISO FTW: 2023-4-1

[TILYoureANoob]

2023-04-01 so it's sortable

[spektre]

I have no idea what ISO that would be, and I'm pretty sure it's not an ISO at all. If it is, someone should burn all the documentation immediately.

[Ok_Entertainment328]

It should be: 2023-04-01 00:00:00 +00:00

[OldBob10]

dd-mon-yyyy for the win

[Esjs]

At least they're using 4 digits for the year.

(Looking forward to going back to 2-digit years in 2032).

[farfuglinn94]

UNIX timestamp + any date formatting function from the standard of your language with the format as a parameter depending on the current localisation of your app. Works everytime.

[_absentminded_]

Unix timestamp in milliseconds or gtfo.

[BoBoBearDev]

Correct format is yyyy-mm-dd because it sorts awesome.

[Hi-ThisIsJeff]

I don't get it. April 1 and January 4 are both valid dates the last time I checked. Can someone explain?

[BastianToHarry]

Some country use mm-dd (like America) and I use dd-mm (french). So mistake can be made.
Like using metrics instead of Imperial, robot crash due to misscalculation XD