1y ago

Japan is on its own wavelength.

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YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.
- "There shall be no other date formats before ISO8601. Remember this format and keep it as the system default"
- Largest to smallest unit of time. It just makes sense.
- Sorting by date would be so much better with yyyymmdd .
- ISO 8601, while great, has too many formats. May I introduce RFC 3339 instead?
  https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
  
  That is what I love so much about standards: there are so many to choose from.
  
  https://xkcd.com/927/
  
  YES! I wish more people knew about RFC 3339. While I'm all for ISO 1601, it's a bit too loose in its requirements at times, and people often end up surprised that it's just not the format they picked...
  
  Huh, I've never noticed how much bloat was in ISO 8601. I think when most people refer to it, we're specifically referring to the date (optionally with time) format that is shared with RFC 3339, namely 2023-11-22T20:00:18-05:00 (etc). And perhaps some fuzziness for what separates date and time.
- If you have years of files named similarly with the date, you will love the ISO standard and how it keeps things sorted and easy to read.
  
  I have autohotkey configured to insert the current date in ISO 8601 format into my filenames on keyboard shortcut for just this reason. So organized. So pure.
  
  Holy shit teach me your ways how do I do that
  
  Download Autohotkey, and create a new script. Paste these shortcuts into the script and restart the script:
  #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
  ; #Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
  SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
  SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
  :R*?:ddd::
  FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyy-MM-dd
  SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
  return
  :R*?:dtt::
  FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyMMddHHmm
  SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
  Return
  Now, if you type 'ddd' on your keyboard, the current date will be typed out, eg '2023-11-23'.
  If you type 'dtt' tgen the datetime stamp will be typed out in YYMMDDhhmm format, eg 2311231012
  There are so many cool things you van do with AHK to make your work more productive. For example, rather tgan typing your email address a billion times, add the shortcut:
  ::add1::your.email.address@domainname.com
  And then you can type 'add1' and hit space, and your email address will be typed out in full. Of course, the string 'add1' can be whatever you want.
  
  I love you.
  
  💕
  
  Are you familiar with AHK at all?