I often use dates in my file names for ‘version control’.
It confuses US people, who change the date to US format, to ‘help’.
It seems hard for them to understand that EDF is the correct format.
If only I had known about Zettelkasten earlier, I could have explained so much!
@JohnPhilpin When date-setting filenames I always use YYYY-MM-DD for sorting purposes and readability.
@JohnPhilpin tbh, ISO 8601 format makes the most sense because you can sort it chronological in a directory structure while still being a numeric value
@pratik I don’t think the people that I am talking about would know what ISO is - much less that there is an ISO 8601 😄 ... but yes.
My format was YYYYMMDD e.g. today is 20211005 - not sure if that makes me fully ISO compliant - but it worked for me - and look how much time I saved by not reading the spec!
@JohnPhilpin Each man his own spec! 😂 Some things make sense through discovery, not always needed to follow the spec…
@pratik good point - and have done it that way aswell (not at the same time I hasten to add) - although the actual date was typically secondary for my needs