On: Konrad Zuse (1994)

[doener]

My brain needed some time to process the "Last updated 94/09/30" at the end. Oh, he means 1994!

[nottorp → doener]

Y/M/D, the only sane way to spell dates.

Too bad it's only a 2 digit year.

[Cu3PO42 → nottorp]

I'd argue ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) is superior still because it is much more difficult to confuse for etiher DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY.

[nottorp → Cu3PO42]

I can stomach any separator as long as the order is right ;)

[Kamq → nottorp]

1994009030

[t-3 → Kamq]

That's padding strings of known length at the demarcation points, not inserting a separator to demarcate strings of unknown length.

[Kamq → t-3]

Strings of unknown length were never in play. The comment was specifically about a separator in a date, which has only 2 potential conventional lengths depending on if you're using a 2 or 4 digit year.

[t-3 → Kamq]

Length can to 2 or 4, month can be 1 or 2, day can be 1 or 2. Using separators makes that easily parseable by both humans and machines, whereas using 0s is just redundant when used on fixed-width strings or potentially confusing when used on variable-width strings.

[Kamq → t-3]

The comment I replied to was about the slashes in 94/09/30 vs iso 8601.

Zero padding was already present in both of these

[nottorp → Kamq]

Bit hard to digest for me. But if you have a column of dates in this format it will suddenly become more legible.

1994009030

1994010021

1995002011

1995006002

The zero separators align now.