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0 pointsfastball7mo ago0 comments

Not only is YYYY/MM/DD unambiguous, but it also sorts correctly by date when you perform a naive alphabetical sort.

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I believe YYYY-MM-DD is even less ambiguous than YYYY/MM/DD.

a967mo ago

Correct. Slashes mean it's a yank date and going to be backwards. Dashes hint that it's going to be (close to) ISO standard.

And it doesn't use a path-separator character for the date.

tom_7mo ago

Slashes are used for dd/mm/yyyy as well. Dashes are indeed better if you want a separator. or use the separator-free ISO 8601 syntax.

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