UPS emailed me to say they're about to deliver a parcel "Sat, 12th April". Or, maybe part of their system is cursed and uses middle-endian date format, which screwed-up how a different part of their system parses dates, and the parcel is due to arrive today? 🤷🏼‍♀️

#UPS #Packidge #DateFormats #WhatIsTime

RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601

https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

#HackerNews #RFC3339 #ISO8601 #DateFormats #TimeStandards #TechDiscussion

For storage, I agree, YYYYMMDD (YYYY-MM-DD), but for display and date entry, my perfect date is DD-MMM-YYYY.

Only alpha month indicators solve the problem if 07-08 is the 7th of August or the 8th of July.

@danderzei
#iso8601 #DateFormats

Finally got around to fixing up my moment-javaformat plugin so it publishes to npmjs with provenance. Not too much trouble to set up! I also updated my github signing key while I was at it so the UI shows "verified”.

Here's the latest: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@rangerrick/moment-javaformat

But it's terrible and you shouldn't follow that link unless you want psychic damage.

strike one: moment, don’t use it!
strike two: dates! not even once!
strike three: wait, what the fuck, java format strings?

#NPM #MomentJS #DateFormats

@drscriptt I request ISO 8601 standard date format immediately upon being presented with non-ISO date formats.
#dateformats #iso8601

I scored 8/28 on https://jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

#JS #JavaScript #Date #DateFormats #Dev #programming

Question: you're a person that use a day-first date when writing — Do you use a leading zero for days less than 10?

05 November 1955 vs 5 November 1955

Does your decision change when using the 3-letter month abbreviations?

05 Nov 1955 vs 5 Nov 1955

NOTE: all numeric dates (e.g. 5.11.1955) are not considered.

Rock the vote. Please boost for reach.

Pick two.

#dateFormats #WritingStyle #writing #standards

Celebrate the rare day when I don't have to worry about dates being month-day-year or day-month-year!

#0606 #EuropeClients #work #dateformats

#IT #InfoSec #DateFormat #DateFormats #ND #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

The only correct date format to use in strings or file names is
%Y%m%d because it is the only format that will sort in proper date order. You can put dashes or period in there if you want, as long as you are consistent.
Any other format will sort weird and is, therefore, more trouble than it is worth.

Edit: As many have pointed out, it's even a standard, y'all.
ISO8601
#ISO8601
Edit2: replace ISO page link with Wikipedia because the ISO page requires you to buy a copy if you want to read it.

I’m happily ensconced in a lifetime relationship with my future hubs and our kiddo, but if I was making an online personal ad in 2023, it would include “must observe ISO 8601 convention on recording dates.”

#ISO8601 #ISO86014EVA #dateformats

For those of you scheduling/organising things with participants from the US and virtually anywhere else, please feel free to use this
#DateFormats

Let's see if #Niantic implements this #localisation #featureRequest for #PokémonGO regarding in-game #dateFormats.
I guess I should've suggested #ISO8601 as well, but I guess most players would expect the format to be displayed in their usual #locale.

#feedback #PokemonGO #mobileGaming #development #L10N #UX