ISO 8601
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
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
HISSSSSS.
switch the slashes to dashes
[Angry ISO-8601 noises]
Ew.
yyyymmdd
ISO 8601 or gtfo
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
ISO datetime, let’s goooooo YYYYMMDDHHmmSS
other formats are confusing
Good luck sorting anything by date!
Date format has nothing to do with sorting by date.
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
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.
You’re all too ambiguous!
04-Aug-2026 is the only acceptable format
Im more of a Medjool guy myself. Not sure what everyone else is talking about.
Y-DDD-MM
It is currently 6-004-08
This is art.
April 25th.
We’ve already established this.
Because it’s not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.
FYI that’s about 218°C
