ISO 8601
YYYY-MM-DD
No need for dashes
Are a lots of things gonna break in about 8000 years?
I’ve recently noticed web forms and appointment emails start to use that format. Maybe web devs are sneaking it in bit by bit.
This is the way.
This is the way.
This is the (year-month-) day.
💯
ISO would be great, but sadly OmegaStar doesn’t support ISO timestamps yet.
Wtf is an omega star?
Not shit enough for a shitpost.
It’s great, and standard for software. But do any of y’all communicate dates like this in your personal life?
Like “want to go to a hockey game with me 2026-10-17?” As cursed as mm-dd-yy is, it feels a lot more natural in conversation.
I absolutely fill out dates in iso 8601 any time I’m required to sign a form.
I like your style. I’ll start doing that, (unless a format is specified, because I’m no protocol breaker.)
Only a truly insane person would use mm-dd-yy in conversation. “Want to go to a hockey game with me ten seventeen twenty-six?” Or worse, “…oh four oh seven twenty-seven.” Pure madness.
Conversationally, mmm d yy or d mmm yy (usually just shortened to mmm d or d mmm) is where it’s at.
I spell out the month, but I’m fancy
FAIL
yyyy-mm-dd
ISO 8601!
Long live the 8601
my beloved
Bear in mind that
YY-MM-DD or YYMMDD -YY-MM or -YYMM --MM-DD or --MMDD --MM ---DDare all valid 8601
Lithuania, Hungary, Japan represent
Based
yep… this or dd.mm.yyyy (for texts)
YYYY-MM-DDISO 8601 my beloved
In fact the Linux date command even has an iso flag:
date --iso-8601
yyyy/mm/dd, it’s less ambiguous and it sorts nicely
Edit: so many replies suggesting using a hyphen as a separator, I’d like to compromise by using the oblique angle sign (⦧) which looks like a slash that becomes a hyphen in the middle. yyyy⦧mm⦧dd
nerd detected
lmftfy: american nerd detected
HISSSSSS.
switch the slashes to dashes
[Angry ISO-8601 noises]
Ew.
yyyymmdd
ISO 8601 or gtfo
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
other formats are confusing
Good luck sorting anything by date!
Date format has nothing to do with sorting by date.
ISO datetime, let’s goooooo YYYYMMDDHHmmSS
We grew up on MM/DD/YYYY but all our computer stuff is YYYY/MM/DD however now that we live in EU we use DD/MM/YYYY and still YYYY/MM/DD for files in pc
4/Aug/2026
Already saw 1 person write 4/7/26. Writing that 3-4 letters for the month both solves the day/month vs month/day issue, and the off chance someone makes mistake of the month number
Yeah, this is how I do it. Computers are more than capable of handling the three-letter abbreviation for months nowadays, versus some bygone era where perhaps we needed just numbers. This is how I date anything that I need to out a date on.
Anyone who wants to write the millennium between the month and century loses all credibility when arguing about date formats.
YYYY-MM-DD is the only coherent date format.
It’s not a bad idea to write it 6202 but then we’re redoing all the numbers, and that’s going to take time
Im more of a Medjool guy myself. Not sure what everyone else is talking about.
YYYYYMMDD
I prefer to think we’re in the year 12026, since homo sapiens really got things going around 10,000 BCE.
