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0 pointssokoloff2y ago0 comments

Maybe I'm not understanding something, but it seems like it would not collate properly with mixed languages:

  202304abr22 - My Spanish appointment
  202304apr15 - My English appointment
  202304avr07 - My French appointment

If you placed the month at the end, it would:

  20230407avr - My French appointment
  20230415apr - My English appointment
  20230422abr - My Spanish appointment

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Nevermark2y ago

I like that, and if day of week is relevant:

    20230915sepFRI

Or for a legibility/size tradeoff:

    2023.09.15.sep.fri

All that left is adding the Chinese zodiac year!

    2023.09.05.rab.sep.fri

Now I am just slightly bothered that the abbreviated words don’t form an isomorphic representation to the numeric. :(

    2023.09.05.3watrab.sep.3fri

There! 3rd Friday in September, 3rd Water Hare from the first in 1903! :)

(In the US we could name years in the form: 4th year of Roosevelt, etc.)

fsckboy2y ago

oh, you make a good point. I'm generally using it for monthly bank statements and whatnot so I'm not looking for fine grained collation, just grouping of "like with like", and i have some international accounts

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