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randint ランディント @lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

1y ago

And I thought that I had already seen the worst date format.

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Might as well roll the dice for order every time a user loads the page.
- We definitely need a "bad UI battles" community here.
  
  It already exists
  !bad_ui_battles@programming.dev

DONT SPEAK TO MY OR MY ISO 8601 EVER AGAIN! 🤬🤧😢
- I hope you mean RFC 3339 instead of that non-authoritative ISO crap 😤
  
  You mean the standard defined by The Internet Engineering Task Force? Of course I do! The ISO name is just more popular.
- Me whenever someone uses a decimal point instead of comma

12-12-12
Just to keep you guessing
- Then you feed {12,12,12} to the API and it turns it into 1970-01-01T12:12:12UTC
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At least it's not a phone number entry via slider.😤
- The fuck you just say to me, you son of a bitch?

It's the 21st of 1946, June.
- Who the FUCK is June? You cheating bastard!

- And the days go 1,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,2,21,23 ...
  
  What happens to 22?

Nah, worst is palindrome interpolated ymdyydmy
- Wtf

DDMMYYYY💪🗓🏆
- Ew
  YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
  
  Rfc3339 is the way. Mathematical superiority is on our side.
- Y/D/Y/M/Y/M/Y/D
- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 😻❤️
  it's the number of days since the asteroid blasted the dinosaurs, conveniently in 32 decimal digits
  
  It would only take 11 decimal digits though. Sadly, an uneven 36 in binary

Is that not the format that's actually used in the US? I mean, it's utterly insane, but a lot of people really are used to having the components of the date in random order.
- nope, we use the format that matches the words spoken so Friday September 15th, 2023 would be Fri 9/15/2023 sometimes the year is shortened
  
  take into account that your "words spoken" isn't necessarily how other say it. For me, saying 15th of july of 2023 sounds way more natural in english.
  
  When is independence day?
  
  In what way is the MDY you write about any different from the YDM in the screenshot? The important thing, that they're in random order, is the same for both, right?
  And as for spoken language, it's not like any normal person would say "September fifteenth" now, is it?

At this point, just go full bananas and use SEP-2023/15
- 20SEP23\16

We must know: how many digits is the year? And when they're displayed later, do they use slashes or hyphens? I want to really breathe in the awful.
- 1970-1999 - 4 digits.
  2000+ - 2 digits.
  No separators
  
  People argue about 2 and 4 digits years. Make it 3 and everyone is annoyed.
  023-16-09
- The year is 4 digits. This is just an age confirmation dialog asking for your birthday on a sketchy website, so I'm pretty sure the date won't be displayed later.

Na, month data year is still the worse.
- What about month year day ?
  
  Satan up early this morning
  
  Yymddmyy?
  Edit: someone already beat me to it.

MMYYYYDD
- YYYY MM DD
  
  That's actually the best
  
  YYYY MM DD is better for directories.
  
  Mine is worse
- YYDDMMYY
  
  YMYMDYDY
  
  HH:SS:MM DD, YYYY, MM

Well its the fluent variant. In the Year YYYY on the DD(st/nd/th) Day of MMMM

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