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).

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 ... 😓

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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).

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