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I keep versioned files around too.
Any on-going work gets a new version daily. I start the day by saving current work to a new file, with the date/time in the file name:
E.G. Project Name 2024-04-09_08-32.xls
Using date with 24hr/military time like this enables sorting, and makes clear when the file was updated. This is especially useful iyou have to share a doc with peers - you never question what version they're looking at (can't always use a version control system).
Just use ISO 8601, it's pretty much designed for this.
Yeah, also generally very helpful for documents from banks etc.
(That's a personal pet peeve of mine when people don't do it like YYYY-MM but e.g. 1-Jan-2024. Who wouldn't love to have their documents sorted in a way that it starts with the first day of every month, then all the second days and so on ...)
https://joplinapp.org/ does this on it's export files btw ... 😓
My computer's filesystem stores several "date" metadata fields for each file, such as "date created" and "date modified", so I don't have to manually manage such things in the file name. I can simply sort by recently modified, recently created, etc.
And those can change - it's a local file system reference.
Windows historically has been really bad about this.
I have thousands of files in windows where the created date is actually last modified date - because the local file system updates on copy/move, or it gets altered by email/transfer systems, etc.
Really, would I have come up with my own naming system if the last mod and create dates were effective?
I have thousands of photos where the file system create time is years different than the metadata create time (what the camera stamped).