DD/MM/YYYY users: haha funny meme day
MM/DD/YYYY users: um ackshully that was last month
YYYY/MM/DD users: time is an ever climbing integer and we can never go back as we march towards our inevitable demise.
It's me, I'm YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
I don't know why you nerds are eating this post up, but you should follow me!
Jul 6, 2026, 4:35 PM@lycanmatriarch same :3
@skye I feel like every way I was taught to measure time in the USA is extremely silly. DD/MM/YYYY and AM/PM (24 hour only used in the military), we could have it so much easier.
@lycanmatriarch @skye Yes, and AM/PM time counts up from 12:00 to 11:59.
@lycanmatriarch Btw. THIS is an actually fully valid #ISO8601 string:
P3Y6M4DT12H30M17S
And I think it is awesome!
@dirk What is the significance of the Period (P) marker counting?
@lycanmatriarch The P marker does not count, it just indicates a period. If you just need a period, you can skip the date part. Oh, and if you need multiple periods, just do …
R8/P3Y6M4DT12H30M17S
… to have 8 repetitions of the period of 3 years, 6 months, etc. starting from now.
@dirk Ah okay, I thought maybe you were tracking a specific geologic time scale or something :blobfox_w:
Jul 6, 2026, 6:19 PM@lycanmatriarch same (when talking from people in the same region, otherwise I use YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ssZ)
@lycanmatriarch yyyy-mm-ddThh:MM:ss
@lycanmatriarch (as a not really professional programmer I bloody hate all things date, time and time zone with passion - everything should be UTC, dammit!)
@drchaos In systems and networks I run into so many things that are left in UTC, it's just expected that everyone learns the + or - from their local time zone.
@lycanmatriarch
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is the correct answer
@lycanmatriarch
too standardized for my liking
Jul 7, 2026, 3:40 AM
Jul 6, 2026, 4:26 PM
@Jain@blob.cat @lycanmatriarch@furry.engineer YY/YY/MDMD
Jul 6, 2026, 5:13 PM
@Jain @boatload @lycanmatriarch *internal screaming*
@fuchsiii @Jain @boatload @lycanmatriarch if it was my decision, YYYYMMDD,hhmmssTZ would be mandatory as date & time format for all those who can't be assed to use #Unixtime like a sane sysadmin!
Jul 6, 2026, 6:24 PM@kura@hai.z0ne.social @Jain@blob.cat @lycanmatriarch@furry.engineer happy 20002672 everyone
Jul 6, 2026, 7:30 PM@boatload@mk.absturztau.be @Jain@blob.cat @lycanmatriarch@furry.engineer this is so cursed.
im loving it
Jul 6, 2026, 4:29 PM@lycanmatriarch@furry.engineer use the first 2 depending on which one contains the funny day and you'll have a lot more in a year.
@syphist This is the kind of positivity we need in the world right now
Jul 6, 2026, 5:50 PM@lycanmatriarch ISO 8601 represent!
Jul 6, 2026, 6:02 PM@lycanmatriarch bravely sprinting to extinction since January 1, 1970.
@lycanmatriarch
YYYY/Month/DD would fix me.
Jul 6, 2026, 6:31 PM
@lycanmatriarch Obligatory XKCD:
![XKCD comic (q.v. https://xkcd.com/2867/) titled "DateTime".
Two people are talking about computing time differences.
In frame 1, the left person says, "Event #1 happened at time T-sub-1"; the right person says, "okay."
In frame 2, the left person says, "Then event #2 happened at time T-sub-2"; the right person agrees with "Mhmm."
In frame 3, the left person asks, "How would you calculate how much time elapsed between T-sub-1 and T-sub-2?"
The comic then splits into two possible outcomes.
Frame titled "Normal Person": the right person answers, "T-sub-2 minus T-sub-1."
Frame titled "Anyone who's worked on datetime systems": the right person shouts, "It is impossible to know and a sin to ask!"
The secret text for this comic is, "It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]"](https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/874/436/443/381/863/original/3dd0745061918a43.png)
Jul 7, 2026, 12:12 AM@sleet01 @lycanmatriarch "God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling." goes unreasonably hard
@lycanmatriarch DD/YYYY/MM users: i was dropped on my head as a child
Jul 6, 2026, 7:21 PM@lycanmatriarch we had that discussion on one of the servers i'm on LMAO
@lycanmatriarch Casio, when they branched out from calculators to digital watches: time is just a series of additions.
Your next 'clock-based' demise is due on 2038-01-19T03:14:08 UTC. The good bit is that it'll hit New Zealand first, because time-zones, so you'll be prepared, of course, by the time it gets around to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I'll likely be worm-food by then, but it will be 'fun' for anyone still running a 32-bit computer in 2038!
@lycanmatriarch @bytebro But if New Zealand goes dark, how will we know if their computers all crashed or they just went back to 1970 and everybody's grooving to Abbey Road again?
In New Zealand, would anyone notice that?
@lycanmatriarch YYYY/DD/MM users: hear me out guys this improves productivity by 6.9%
* proceeds to doom scroll
@lycanmatriarch fond happy memories of the manager who referred to my use of yyyy-mm-dd in filenames as "american dates"
@jackeric More like reverse European dates :blobfox:
@lycanmatriarch is this a general observation? Or is 06/07/2026 a funny date? I've been squinting at it for a couple minutes
@manualcookie It's because it was 6/7 in DD/MM format and that meme inexplicably persists
@lycanmatriarch thanks 🙈 I guess I dated myself
Jul 7, 2026, 9:37 AM@lycanmatriarch It's all fun and games until you subtract 2500 years from the current date.
@jmaris @lycanmatriarch or count from 1970
Jul 7, 2026, 10:55 AM@lycanmatriarch but you can sort your files alphabetically and by date at the same time!
@Ambraven Exactly why I made the switch a few years ago! It's a great help when sorting my drawings.
