[Meeting at my bank some years ago]

Developer 1: What's the best naming convention to use for these PDF account statements, keeping in mind that users will have multiple accounts and probably want to sort them by date?

Developer 2: Hmm.

Developer 1: Hmm.

Developer 2: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Developer 1: Are you thinking BANK NAME - DAY OF MONTH - THREE FIRST LETTERS OF MONTH NAME - YEAR?!

Developer 2: YESSSSS.

@Moltz 🤦‍♂️

@Moltz It’s to disambiguate between the customary US format and the day/month/year format. If it has all been numbers the data itself couldn’t have indicated which was which. So, yeah, annoying but there’s a rationale. (And you can guess how I’d suggest it be fixed…)

@Gte @Moltz

ISO 8601? Ha.

Bank - Acct # - YYYY-MM-DD.pdf

@matt_garber @Gte That's the stuff.

@Gte @Moltz Giving the date in day/month/year is like giving the time in seconds:minutes:hours.

@drdrang @Moltz Yes! Silly for sure. Year/Month/Day is what you’d want!

@drdrang @Gte @Moltz one of these days I’m gonna get an ISO 8601 tattoo

@Moltz After their success with designing the sytem for your bank, my bank hired them.

Developer 1: Why reinvent the wheel?

Developer 2: If it ai’t broke, don’t fix it. Amiright?

@drdrang @Gte @Moltz 3 words: High Frequency Trading.

@Moltz readability and understanding vs sorting.

@Moltz this is my power bills, which I grab for solar stats. They start with the month name 🙄