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ADHDel-DRAFT-v10-final (2).doc

@saramg @lmgenealogy I’m a UXer so the answer is it depends. Let me attempt to soften your GTFO 😂

1.
Friday, 5th May 2023 for humans (and readability). Shortened as appropriate:

- Friday, 5th May 2023
Useful for dates way in the future.

- Friday, 5th May
Most times we can presume the year and drop it.

- Friday, 5th
Drop the month if we’re referring to this month (or next if the numerical value is lower than today).

- Friday
If the date is within seven or so days of today we can even rely on the day of the week and don’t even need the numerical date.

Including the actual day of the week at every stage makes it useful, #accessible and #inclusive, particularly for the #neurodivergent community; as much as 20% of the population.

2.
Obviously all the above is little help when working with data. That’s when 2023-05-03 is the only way.

2 May 2023 at 10:46 | Wall-to-wall | Open on neurodifferent.me
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SaraMG

@del @lmgenealogy I was ready to agree right up until "Friday" by itself. I have had WAY too many arguments with people using that variant incorrectly. e.g. "No, not tomorrow-friday, the next friday, if I meant tomorrow-friday I'dda said tomorrow!"

Which just makes my engineer brain scream.

2 May 2023 at 14:47 | Open on fosstodon.org
SaraMG

@del @lmgenealogy
Obviously yes, spoken dates are a very different animal and I never say "See ya on 2023-05-05!"

Written dates though.... I'm less inclined to exclude year and will pretty much only do "5th May, 2023" or "2023-05-05" as the only unambiguous options.

2 May 2023 at 14:48 | Open on fosstodon.org
Lynn McAlister UE

@saramg @del I would write "5 May 2023", but have used the year-month-day on documents. The problem for me is that I currently live in the US, so I'm always confused: If someone writes 12/5, I see 12 May, when the person who wrote the date meant 5th of December.

2 May 2023 at 17:52 | Open on mstdn.ca
SaraMG

@lmgenealogy @del Right. That's what I mean. X/Y/Z is meaningless unless we're lucky to be talking about a date after the 12th of the month.

2 May 2023 at 18:09 | Open on fosstodon.org
ADHDel-DRAFT-v10-final (2).doc

@saramg @lmgenealogy Can I be so bold as to ask you to try and include days of the week too? People typically know their own daily or even weekly routine reasonably well but may not immediately know what day of the week an arbitrary numerical date in the future falls on.

By including day of the week you provide context around the date that helps people orientate themselves and understand how the event might fit in with their life, routine and availability. 😌

2 May 2023 at 18:10 | Open on neurodifferent.me
ADHDel-DRAFT-v10-final (2).doc
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