Easily proved to be the best: in every time travel story, the time traveler asks for the date. The unsuspecting drone always responds with DD or MM-DD, and the protagonist has to shout at them “NO! WHAT YEAR IS IT?”
China and Japan switched from their old calendar system, which was using the start of their current emperor inauguration as the first year, reset with each new emperor.
So I guess it was easier to choose the only correct date format.
That just dictates what number the year starts at, not the order of writing down a date.
They do traditionally go from general to specific though. When writing an address in China, you go Country - State - City - Street - Person (I forget where the postal code goes).
sniff sniff
You smell that? They’re coming, the ISO 8601 gang.
YYYY-MM-DD OR DEATH
Easily proved to be the best: in every time travel story, the time traveler asks for the date. The unsuspecting drone always responds with DD or MM-DD, and the protagonist has to shout at them “NO! WHAT YEAR IS IT?”
Always start with YYYY.
I rest my case.
Gotta have that good sorting
DD is day in year, I think dd is what you mean. Also, YYYY is week year, so better to use yyyy.
yyyy-MM-dd
%Y-%m-%d in strftime
yyyy-mm-dd in Excel and Google Sheets
Anything else is madness. It’s demonstrably the only logical answer.
YMD is primarily used in:
China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hungary, Mongolia, Lithuania, Bhutan, Sweden
That is one weird country group.
China and Japan switched from their old calendar system, which was using the start of their current emperor inauguration as the first year, reset with each new emperor.
So I guess it was easier to choose the only correct date format.
That just dictates what number the year starts at, not the order of writing down a date. They do traditionally go from general to specific though. When writing an address in China, you go Country - State - City - Street - Person (I forget where the postal code goes).
How the fuck did NK got here?
W E A R E H E R E
W E A R E I N E V I T A B L E
You’re god damn right
Fuck yeah
Hell yeah, brother!
Relevant xkcd