
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

Iso is the only way.
world@lemmy.world (World News) community doesn't use ISO8601
1y 2mon ago by lemmy.world/u/qaz in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.orgISO 8601 ftw rule
1y 4mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from gregtech.euCanadian 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.comRFC 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.orgRFC 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.orgJust found the worst time/date format
2y 3mon ago by sh.itjust.works/u/Klaymore in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from sh.itjust.worksStandards shouldn't be behind a paywall
2y 6mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.orgAnything of interest happen in 9-11?
2y 8mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org from en.wikipedia.orgWhat is the need of T in the new (2019) time format?
2y 9mon ago by lemmy.sdf.org/u/lambalicious in iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org2023-08-13: 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







