Japan is on its own wavelength.

YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.

DD/MM/YY and YY/MM/DD are the only acceptable ones IMO. Throwing a DD in between YY and MM is just weird since days move by faster so they should be at one of the ends and since YY moves the slowest it should be on the other end.

ISO 8601 format is the best (YYYY-MM-DD).

YYYY-MM-DD (honestly without dashes) is the only helpful format.

If you name all your files with this as a suffix then your files automatically sort versions of themselves in order when sorting by name.

MMDDYY is just a mess. Otherwise… US problems, I don’t care…

It actually makes sense when you put YYYY/MM/DD in filenames as they will be sorted pretty neat (ex: reports)

It is arguably the best way to name large sets of indexed files on a filesystem.

This meme implies there's an equal battle between MM/DD/YY and DD/MM/YY, which is nonsense. Much like imperial units, only 'murica uses MM/DD/YY.

YYYY-MM-DD in Hungary too, that us shit is totally non logical, i cant get used to it

When you're naming a file, you can't use anything else.

YYYY-MM-DD for everything digital, DD-MM-YYYY for everything IRL.

Iso date format. Anything to do with photos is best to have in this format at the start of the filename.

I propose the use of MYDYDM format. So, October 15, 2023 will be written as 121350. Just to make it as confusing as possible.

YYYY-MM-DD for files, DD-MM-YYYY for normal use

TBH, Japanese format makes sense when you use it to name files/directories, as sorting by "name" is equivalenti to sorting by "last modified".

Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster

2023年12月22日

Japan wins this one.

DD/MM for readability, YYYY/MM/DD for alphabetical sorting that's also chronological.

What about YY/DD/MM?

May I chime in with a DD MMM YYYY as in 22 NOV 2023

Hey… it sorts properly alphabetically

Its the same for all East Asian countries as well, but I guess slapping JAPAN on it means fast upvotes, like that "Place, Japan" meme.

Japan isn't on its own wavelength, most of East Asian does this, probably because they all decided they wanted to be like China: which was a government which governed more. https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15o?t=1m7s

SQL HAS ENTETED THE CHAT;

The right answer is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

Military be like 23/NOV/2023

It makes sense to either go general to specific or specific to general. MM-DD-YYYY is neither.

TIL that I'm Japanese

The nasty little Swedes also do that. Typisk svensk.

The truly enlightened interleave the numerals: YMD/YMD

YY/MM/DD SUPREMACY

There is of course a relevant xkcd page

Reiwa era enters the chat

Most of Japanese hates the arbitary currender year resetting at each new emperor enthronrment. The conversion is ass and no one knows when it changes (bound to emperor's health) . Worst is its official year that govmt body accepts.

How about 0xYYYMDD or 0xYYYYMDD if you need years after 4095 for some reason.

Today is 0x7e7b16

China does this too. I love getting files in this format.

Yeah but half the time is actually: EYY/MM/DD. Like this year is 令5/MM/DD.

And some years have two values, 2019 was both 平31, from 01/01 until 04/30, then 令1 from 05/01 onwards.

Don't ask how they count the years tho

Taste nippon formatting, gaigin

It's 1700663620 now.

Tbf Japan's system still makes more sense than having the month first. The month is the middle number so it makes no sense having that first

Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster

Yep, today is 2023, November 22.

Someone should make this an alternative date format in English, it looks and works really well.

Japan I can get behind but MM/dd/yyyy is just evil, why would you sandwich days between months and years? You monster

Pretty f'd up we can't all even agree on this. Between this and DST, humanity is just pretty hopeless.

YYYY-MM-DD should be the main everywhere.

119 doesent feel the same

Canada does that

These formats are overrated. MM/YYYY/DD is clearly better.

Isn't Japanese read from right to left?