And you would be correct to do so. ISO 8601specifies that dates should be written in the format YYYY-MM-DD where months and days are represented by two digit numbers.Jesper Norgaard wrote: Actually I would insist that "2016-06-11" is better than "2016-6-11" because that way it is sortable. Or else October, November and December are out of order. If you use Paris_Grand_Chess_Tour as a file name, and supply the date in the end, you may have Paris_Grand_Chess_Tour_2015-11-22.docx to sort before Paris_Grand_Chess_Tour_2016-06-14.docx automatically when looking at a list of files. Very practical!
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Have they planned for what happens the day after 9999-12-31?
Oh, they have:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_form ... orage_bugs
Oh, they have:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_form ... orage_bugs
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Re: Paris Grand Chess Tour
I save documents as , to use your example, 2016.06.14 Paris GCT, so that way they are easier to deal with for meJesper Norgaard wrote:Actually I would insist that "2016-06-11" is better than "2016-6-11" because that way it is sortable. Or else October, November and December are out of order. If you use Paris_Grand_Chess_Tour as a file name, and supply the date in the end, you may have Paris_Grand_Chess_Tour_2015-11-22.docx to sort before Paris_Grand_Chess_Tour_2016-06-14.docx automatically when looking at a list of files. Very practical!
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