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mmooss

You are a developer who works with time and you named your file, "16-05-2019-the-matter-of-time"? :)

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What's wrong with that?

They wrote it on the 16th of May, or the 5th of Bdrfln, we will never know.

Perhaps it's just named for that date, and not written then?

In any case, dates only have to make sense in the context they are used.

Eg we don't know from just the string of numbers whether it's Gregorian, Julian, or Buddhist or Japanese etc calendar.

Who know, it may not even be a date?

But seriously, https://xkcd.com/1179/

Assuming Gregorian is a sane choice.

Not any worse than most other commonly used calendars, and it's got the benefit of network effects: many people use it, and virtually everyone will be at least somewhat familiar with it.

That’s not a standard format. ISO format is yyyy-mm—dd. Also, sorts nicely by time if you sort alphabetically.

Yes, I know. But for your personal file names, you can pick whatever you feel like.

Yeah, sorry mate, it can be confusing, will use unix epoch next time.

Why the snarkiness? Don't you acknowledge that YYYY-MM-DD is strictly superior to DD-MM-YYYY?

Snarkiness was deserved.

lol. Great article, btw; thanks. I submitted it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516811

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