• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    2 days ago

    I’ve never encountered a date format nazi before, this is first contact for me.

    I guess you haven’t had the pleasure of working with many database administrators then ;)

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      2 days ago

      Human readable: Either ddmmyyyy or yyyymmdd
      Computer: yyyymmddhhmmss only.

      Imo the only wrong thing to do is mmddyyyy
      That 's just cursed. Like imperial system.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 days ago

        But how do you document which version of an hour it is when daylight savings time “falls back”? What about leap seconds? Also if there’s no time zone specified is it local? UTC? GMT? I could go on…

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          2 days ago

          I am not living in a country with multiple timezones
          I am not working in a multi-national company.

          Should I have to define timezones, I will say so (e.g. “Let’s meet at 13:00 (or 1pm) CEST”)