• DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      ISO 8601 baby

      Though it ought to be a prefix, not a suffix

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        1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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

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      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