@Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 year agoA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldimagemessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down10
arrow-up146arrow-down1imageA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.world@Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)linkfedilink0•1 year agoShould work if you have an RTL invert character before, right? (Not that you could name files with the slashes.)
minus-square@Osan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 year agoRTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)linkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoBut if you type it as “[RTL invert]yyyy/mm/dd” it is automatically sorted correctly in ltr parsing systems but still displayed correctly (assuming it is supported which it seems to be on most devices nowadays).
minus-square@Osan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 year agoYou want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
Should work if you have an RTL invert character before, right? (Not that you could name files with the slashes.)
RTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
But if you type it as “[RTL invert]yyyy/mm/dd” it is automatically sorted correctly in ltr parsing systems but still displayed correctly (assuming it is supported which it seems to be on most devices nowadays).
You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”