Mar 21, 2025
YYYY-MM-DD
This is the only rational order to write dates when you're representing them all as numbers. It is a logical, descending progression that keeps things sorted coherently on computers if you write the date at the start of a file name.
Conversely, if you are writing out the name of the month (e.g., "March"), then do whatever you want, honestly. People's brains can figure out what the deal is just fine from that written context clue. If they can't, they're either being willfully stupid or naturally stupid. Neither type of stupidity deserves your time or energy to address.
#thoughts#dates#date writing#writing dates#yyyy-mm-dd#i am so serious about the computer sorting part#and writing the name of the month is good when it's written with human readability in mind#it just completely eliminates the ambiguity#especially if you continue writing the year with all 4 digits#but yyyy-mm-dd IS the only one that has a legitimate and logical organizational argument to it#everything else is just people making inane claims that THEIR convention is better because it makes sense to THEM#familiarity ≠ logical and unfamiliarity ≠ illogical#and i'm just tired of the petty bickering about this sort of crap#i have spoken