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Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
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[–] DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 99 points 10 months ago (4 children)

YYYY-MM-DD (honestly without dashes) is the only helpful format.

If you name all your files with this as a suffix then your files automatically sort versions of themselves in order when sorting by name.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago

ISO 8601 baby

Though it ought to be a prefix, not a suffix

[–] numanair@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You mean as a prefix, right?

[–] Shayreelz@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Their assumption is that the filename is the same otherwise e.g. myNotes20231122.txt

[–] numanair@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Oh I see, thanks. Good alternative to final3_release2.

[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago

Came here to say this, I use DD.MM.YY in day-to-day stuff, but for files it's either YYYY_MM_DD or YY_MM_DD, the automatic ordering is beautiful

[–] PilferJynx@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah this method is superior for digital filing. I can't imagine the sorting clusters I'd have to go through to find what I want any other way