• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)

      DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.

      MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.

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          3 days ago

          Luckily for you that’s the iso standard haha

          I wouldn’t mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don’t believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.

          You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you’re an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).

          The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.

          Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha

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      5 days ago

      If you want a computer to sort dates in a sane manner, year-month-day is the only option. Anything else is madness.

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      5 days ago

      Biggest to smallest - makes it easy to sort by date for things like folders of photos. And other things, I’m sure.