Ironically the blog post is missing a timestamp.
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#52It's something that I agree with and increasingly I add dates in my notes. In addition to that, using one single format is really important. if the article was published on say November 2nd. I wouldn't know if it was 11th February or 2nd November. DD MMM YYYY is safest. The 3Ms being Jan, Feb, Mar....
You can just use ISO 8601, YYYY-MM-DD, then you can be international standards compliant as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
I think everyone should use ISO 8601.
And if you are using something else, especially if it’s something like XX-XX-XX, specify what you mean by that!
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#53Re: Use Timestamps
#54It's something that I agree with and increasingly I add dates in my notes. In addition to that, using one single format is really important. if the article was published on say November 2nd. I wouldn't know if it was 11th February or 2nd November. DD MMM YYYY is safest. The 3Ms being Jan, Feb, Mar....
I store notes in to git repository. I used to store timestamps inside the file too, but I found out I don't have the patience to add those if I change tooling like to a different markdown editor that doesn't do it automatically.
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#55I don't understand how people can accept the browser hiding the URL.
People without a technical background could accept a browser that doesn't display an URL at all. Just put a nice big Button with the Google-Logo somewhere, which for many people is "The internet" and they are happy.
And anyone claiming otherwise should riddle me this: How do most non-technical people in the world access "awesomepageireallylike.something"? That's right, they click into the address bar, start typing until the string they remebered appears, and then click on that. And what is that? Exactly: A Google search.
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#56If I don't see a date, I just don't read it.
That was my problem with the article about nix. I wouldn’t have read it if it was 10 years old (and probably out of date).
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#57It's something that I agree with and increasingly I add dates in my notes. In addition to that, using one single format is really important. if the article was published on say November 2nd. I wouldn't know if it was 11th February or 2nd November. DD MMM YYYY is safest. The 3Ms being Jan, Feb, Mar....
I use YYYY-MM-DD for my blog since it's the one true date format.
Unix Epoch with the string "Stardate: " prepended does the trick :D
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#58Not everything is written at a given point in time and then forgotten about. There are many texts that are continuously updated over years and even decades.
I think timestamps are even more important in that case.
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#59I don't understand how people can accept the browser hiding the URL.
People with technical skills can't accept that, but the ones without them that make up the majority couldn't care less. The vast majority of people don't know how to read or utilize anything past the domain name, hence why you constantly see people copy paste 300 characters long URLs of images from Google. Hell, a good amount of people don't even look at the domain name which is why phishing is so common.
Then browsers should make the url more visible and distinctive. Colorize URL elements, etc.
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#60Needs a (2023)
True. Although there is the timestamp on the website and the one on HN.