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On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:30:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 22:51 this Sunday (GMT):

On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:03:00 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

It is common to use "/" as a separator but I save that for
directories.

You could use rCLreorCY instead.

I feel like that would cause a lot of confusion, especially in a
terminal env...

Confusion for whom? The computer would not be confused. And humans are
good at interpreting things in context, in situations which could
cause confusion for computers.
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Le 28-09-2025, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> a |-crit-a:

I think it is backward as I use 2025-09-28 for today and on my files
to sort them I use a simllar if not identical system of numbering for
example when I pull the last week from my daily journal I will file it
as 2025-09.20-09.26 to indicate the period covered.
It is common to use "/" as a separator but I save that for
directories.

Printing a date for people to read it is not the same thing as printing
a date for naming files which is not the same as printing dates for
exchanges between systems.
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On 10/4/25 02:31, St|-phane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 28-09-2025, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> a |-crit-a:

I think it is backward as I use 2025-09-28 for today and on my files
to sort them I use a simllar if not identical system of numbering for
example when I pull the last week from my daily journal I will file it
as 2025-09.20-09.26 to indicate the period covered.
It is common to use "/" as a separator but I save that for
directories.

Printing a date for people to read it is not the same thing as printing
a date for naming files which is not the same as printing dates for
exchanges between systems.

Indeed is is not but people can learn to use the computer version
as easlly as the computer can be set to render such dates. But the
computer date version can easily be used to fnd documents of a
specific date much more easily than sorting by named months, which
names differ between cultures, as do named days of the week..
The numbering of the years of the Common Era and the months
and days of those years does not differ unless you move to another
calendar than the CE Solar Year.

bliss
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On Sat, 4 Oct 2025 10:08:56 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

On 10/4/25 02:31, St|-phane CARPENTIER wrote:

Printing a date for people to read it is not the same thing as printing
a date for naming files which is not the same as printing dates for
exchanges between systems.

Indeed is is not but people can learn to use the computer version
as easlly as the computer can be set to render such dates.

Different regions use different formats, and in an international world,
that can, and does, lead to confusion. ThatrCOs why we have an international standard, ISO 8601, that we can agree on for everybody to use.
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