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Date & time format should be more like ISO 8601 #20

Closed oestrogen closed 3 years ago

oestrogen commented 6 years ago

YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM'SS, i.e, 2018-08-02-1016'36, is a strange date and time format.

Preferably something like the ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS i. e, 2018-08-28T10:39:01) should be used. I would also be OK with YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS i. e, 2018-08-28 10:39:01, which is more readable.

folletto commented 6 years ago

Hi!

You exactly pointed out where the format comes from. The difference from the ISO standard happened because:

  1. Most people don't intuitively get the "T", so I introduced the space instead — while not standard seems a clarity improvement for a filename.
  2. Unfortunately certain filesystems (i.e. Mac) don't support : in the filename (it's a reserved character). So that can't be used either. I initially just used HHMM as a format, but I received feedback that it wasn't enough as people did multiple screenshots per minute. So I added SS but then it became too much of a blob, which is why I opted to separate the seconds.

I know it's not ideal, but given the above it seems an ok solution. :)

oestrogen commented 3 years ago

With 2 years hindsight, this was a non-issue 😅.

folletto commented 3 years ago

I appreciate you coming back and replying to close it! Thanks! :)