I think using three digits for the month is a bit confusing. :)
I don’t like DD-MM-YYYY. I think it should be DD.MM.YYYY. This way you can distinguish between the date formats in those cases where people only use two digits for the year. Hyphen as a seperator means year in front, a dot means year at the end. And a slash implies the bad format.
I usually see MMM as an indicator for the three letter month abbreviation, useful for when humans are reading it (since it makes it all that much more difficult to misinterpret)
I was sharing a meme about how absurd our time-related names are: days of the week named after the sun, then the moon, then a bunch of Nordic gods, and then the Roman god Saturn, and then months named after some Roman gods, then some Roman leaders, then some numbers that don’t actually correspond to their placement in our calendars.
And my Chinese coworker was like “dude that’s why our days of the week and months of the year are just the numbers, where January is something like ‘month one’ and Monday is something like ‘day one.’” Seems like a good system to me, honestly.
When I’m writing dates for work I always use the three letter month abbreviation (01-Sep) because it is totally unambiguous, doesn’t matter what country or time recording system that gets forwarded on to, they know what date I meant and can’t slip-slide out of it with an “oopsie date format” excuse!
If you want it to be analogous to other numbers, YYYY-MM-DD makes more sense - from largest unit to smallest. We don’t say e.g. 1024 metres as “24 metres and 1 kilometre” either.
03-Sep-2025. I don’t like it, but I forgive it because at least it’s unambiguous, unlike some other date formats that aren’t YYYY-MM-DD we could mention.
YYYY-MM-DD for electronic sorting.
DD-MMM-YYYY for everything else.
Edited to add: it is wild to me that people downvote someone else’s opinion about something so mundane.
The 1st of September, year of our Lord 2025 AD.
AD means “in the year of our lord”.
It’s a very lordly date
September 1st, 1981 AD, 12:01PM and 5 seconds, 35 feet west of Paris, Wisconsin on the Horizon
I think using three digits for the month is a bit confusing. :)
I don’t like DD-MM-YYYY. I think it should be DD.MM.YYYY. This way you can distinguish between the date formats in those cases where people only use two digits for the year. Hyphen as a seperator means year in front, a dot means year at the end. And a slash implies the bad format.
I usually see MMM as an indicator for the three letter month abbreviation, useful for when humans are reading it (since it makes it all that much more difficult to misinterpret)
I was sharing a meme about how absurd our time-related names are: days of the week named after the sun, then the moon, then a bunch of Nordic gods, and then the Roman god Saturn, and then months named after some Roman gods, then some Roman leaders, then some numbers that don’t actually correspond to their placement in our calendars.
And my Chinese coworker was like “dude that’s why our days of the week and months of the year are just the numbers, where January is something like ‘month one’ and Monday is something like ‘day one.’” Seems like a good system to me, honestly.
That makes sense. The three letter month abbreviation is unusual in Germany, so that idea didn’t cross my mind.
When I’m writing dates for work I always use the three letter month abbreviation (01-Sep) because it is totally unambiguous, doesn’t matter what country or time recording system that gets forwarded on to, they know what date I meant and can’t slip-slide out of it with an “oopsie date format” excuse!
MMM is a three letter abbreviation, like Jan or Mar or Sep.
MM.DD.YYYY is illegal. It’s random. Just sort by how big the time unit is and get DD.MM.YYYY
If you want it to be analogous to other numbers, YYYY-MM-DD makes more sense - from largest unit to smallest. We don’t say e.g. 1024 metres as “24 metres and 1 kilometre” either.
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Oh I learnt French in high school and it was pure insanity xD
“ninety” = “four twenty ten” 🥴
Random would be (e.g.) DY-MYYD-MY
That doesn’t sound random to me.
fixed, check again
I didn’t spot the three Ms at first.
03-Sep-2025. I don’t like it, but I forgive it because at least it’s unambiguous, unlike some other date formats that aren’t YYYY-MM-DD we could mention.
downvoted for whining, not for your opinion. just to clarify :p
Be baffled is whining?
If you are going to provide a separate format for readability, make it
ddd MMM dd, yyyy! Day of week is quite relevant to humans.