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7mon 1d ago by lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/Redjard in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from files.catbox.moe

Some years ago in a chain of discussion the more typical simple pyramid representation of date formats was improved to incorporate every (big and) little detail of the various formats accurately.

The annotated regions of usage are debated however.

The first insight is that numbers themselves are ordered most to least significant, that's why every numeric element is sloped top to bottom. This shows why dd.mm.yyyy is not well-ordered, even ignoring the time component.

Then, am/pm is actually its own segment of the time notation when it is used, and as the biggest is misplaced when put after time.
Put between date and time it is still inefficient, but at least placed in order (and is alphabetically sorted).

Another neat detail is the quirk of 12h time to call the first hour 12 instead of 00. This is represented by the lowest section of the hour bar spiking to be the widest.

One remaining inaccuracy is that the width of the bars does not match their encoded amount of information. It would be sensible to have the day be 5x wider than am/pm, and the (4 digit) years 2.6x as wide as the days, but alas that would be too impractical for such a well-designed infographic.

I inverted the original because I prefer darkmode. Here is the original

I cast retinal damage

Iso is the only way.

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world@lemmy.world (World News) community doesn't use ISO8601

1y 2mon ago by lemmy.world/u/qaz in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org
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ISO 8601 ftw rule

1y 4mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from gregtech.eu
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Canadian man reading date never knows which is day and which is month unless day is above 12

1y 8mon ago by lemmy.ca/u/dankm in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from thebeaverton.com
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RFC 9557: Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps with Additional Information

1y 9mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from datatracker.ietf.org
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RFC 9557: Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps with Additional Information

2y 1d ago by discuss.tchncs.de/u/jbk in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from datatracker.ietf.org
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Just found the worst time/date format

2y 3mon ago by sh.itjust.works/u/Klaymore in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from sh.itjust.works
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Standards shouldn't be behind a paywall

2y 6mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org
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Anything of interest happen in 9-11?

2y 8mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from en.wikipedia.org
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What is the need of T in the new (2019) time format?

2y 9mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org
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2023-08-13: Kindly proposing a logo / banner for this community

2y 10mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from xkcd.com
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