On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 8:09 PM DL Neil <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> wrote: > > On 3/02/19 9:45 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Which is why I always write dates in sorted format, usually eschewing > > delimiters: > > > > //CJA 20160511: Is this still happening? I don't remember seeing it in > > three parts of forever. > > Sure is. It is an acceptable alternative under the ISO standard.
Not sure if you're responding to the content of the comment there; that was just one that I lifted straight from some of my source code. It's part of a bug note regarding something that happens *extremely* sporadically, and all I could do was to write down everything I knew and then wait for the next occurrence. Back in May of 2016, I added that comment, and it's still there to this day, because I haven't actually proven the bug gone. > Some would say it is more sensible to use when storing data because it > removes the dash/hyphen separators in exchange for implying the > fixed-format. (more bytes/characters saved if extend to include the time) > > I'm not going there - recalling folk from these memory-is-cheap times > being less able to understand why we used to save 'expensive' storage > space by using yy-years (instead of ccyy) and thus 'causing' "the > millennium bug" aka Y2K! Skipping the delimiter isn't about saving space, it's about consistency. If I say "non-delimited sorted date", you can almost certainly write out a character-for-character identical date - handy if you want to search a bunch of files, for instance. Having delimiters leaves people free to dispute whether they should be slashes, hyphens, dots, or maybe something else. > I wouldn't use it in a 'visible' situation though, eg a fileNM. Yes, it > is shorter, but as my eyes age (they are already older than my teeth!), Guess your teeth better work on catching up... > I find it much slower to decode than reading the same with embedded > separators! Sure. I mainly use it in contexts where the most important information is simply "that's a date", rather than actually caring what the date *is*. > > That said, I am aware that I am not in any way a "normal person". > > Using month names as per your other example is probably a fair > > compromise with other humans. > > There's normal and there's normal - like it's tomato or tomato? > I dunno. I'm the kind of normal that likes tomatoes (not to be confused with tomatoes). Does that help? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
