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this is the start of everything falling apart, i can feel it (media.fedia.io)
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image saying "at least the important software isn't being vibe cod-" (cut off) and showing a graph of em dashes in the linux kernel over time with a sharp rise the past few years
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[–] 13 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Because one lives the other should not long live Y-M-D

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    NO. You need a character per digit and you always want the leading 0 shown.

    YYYY-MM-DD

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    ISO 8601 is the only correct way.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    It's close, sure, but actually no. That standard currently requires the letter T (and no white-space) between date and time when both are present, and, frankly, that's ugly and a space should be allowed.

    An old version of the standard allowed the space, and GNU's coreutils seem to have carried on the tradition, so I'm not alone in thinking this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

    OP's graph uses slashes.

    Dashes would remove all the confusion.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    No because it's the global format that typically uses periods.

    D.M.Y (normal)
    Y-M-D (superior)
    M/D/Y (mental illness)

    Mixing up the formats and denominators makes this mess even worse.

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

    you should also always specify YYYY-MM-DD because often M and D ignores leading zeros, YY means the 2 digit suffix, and Y… well, i don’t even know what that is but i’m sure it’s something less specific than YYYY

    if we’re going to be picky about being clear about things, let’s be truly clear about things

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    YYYYY would be something like "The Year of Our Lord, Two-Thousand and Twenty-Six" (or probably just "Twenty Twenty-Six", but the other is more ridiculous so I'll go with that)

    Y would just be "6" but I can't think of any context where that would ever be used

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