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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've never encountered a date format nazi before, this is first contact for me.

I guess you haven’t had the pleasure of working with many database administrators then ;)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Human readable: Either ddmmyyyy or yyyymmdd
    Computer: yyyymmddhhmmss only.

    Imo the only wrong thing to do is mmddyyyy
    That 's just cursed. Like imperial system.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    But how do you document which version of an hour it is when daylight savings time “falls back”? What about leap seconds? Also if there’s no time zone specified is it local? UTC? GMT? I could go on…

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