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Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.
ISO 8601 is
YYYYMMDD(orYYYY-MM-DDin extended format)Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading
20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters?As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.
So do I, but I don't think I need to worry too much about confusing them with 2090.
Just you wait...
I mean, I could hope to live that long!
Wise people plant trees whose shade they'll never stand in.
Now the alphabetical view doesn't sort them by date