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The objectively correct date - time format should be:
YYYY/MM/DD hh:mm:ss
@alyx@gameliberty.club Absolutely agree.
@moth@husk.site
I actually write my dates like `2022 NOV. 15'
@alyx@gameliberty.club
@moth @kino
Complete nonsense. The information displayed should follow an order. Either from smallest unit to largest, or the other way around. You have info denoting the exact day (small unit), then the entire month (larger unit), then again info denoting the day (small unit), then the year (largest unit).
Tuesday, 15th of November, 2022 makes a lot more sense.
@moth@husk.site Why must it be a sentence? English is strange. @alyx@gameliberty.club
@moth @kino
I don't think formats like dd/mm/yyyy or whatever are speech between machines at all. Speech between machines, when it comes to date, is just counting the seconds since who knows what year.
The date formats we use are just a form of shorthand. An abbreviation. They are no different than lol or lmao. A way to condense quite a bit of information.
That might be true for one small part of a machine (hardware rtc) but between applications you're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 or similar.
@moth @kino
No.... these standards are made to represent what is being displayed to the user. Computers talk between one another by sending a single binary number that represents the amount of seconds since 1970. Any calculations done by a program on dates is done on that number. Only at the end of it all, does a standard come into play to convert that binary number into something legible to you and me.
That has not been the case in any software that I've seen. It's some RFC defined date in a json field most the time for me.