Screenshot date format

I'm not sure where to post this, it's not really an in-game bug but it's a massive problem for me and others who like taking and looking at screenshots.

Someone apparently thought it'd be a great idea to use the date format ddmmyyyy_hhmmss, how said someone thought that was a good idea I do not understand. Looking for a certain screenshot, even if it's the most recent one, is hell since they are completely unsorted (chronically). As far as I know there is not a single country or region that even uses this date format! Please use the ISO 8601 standard, yyyy-mm-ss, which as far as I know is an official date format standard in every country and certainly in computer applications. Unlike the current little endian format it makes sense (the current format has small units first, the largest unit years in the middle, and then shrinking units again with hhmmss!). Most importantly it is sortable.

Hello,
Although I must agree that having the yyyy-mm-dd format would be much better for sorting the pictures (and I always wanted to post about it), you can see here that dd-mm-yyyy is certainly the most or one of the two most used formats...
Best.

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Originally Posted by Yasminou

Hello,
Although I must agree that having the yyyy-mm-dd format would be much better for sorting the pictures (and I always wanted to post about it), you can see here that dd-mm-yyyy is certainly the most or one of the two most used formats...
Best.

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While this is true, almost every country has ISO 8601 as an official standard (even if people don't use it in everyday writing). I was also refering specifically to the formating ddmmyyyy, when this order is used there is usually some kind of separator, and often days and months less than 10 are written out with only one digit. The screenshot format uses exactly that format; for example 21122013_0319, if you look at the details for each region at that wikipedia page, you will not see a single one using this particular format. yyyymmdd and yyyy-mm-dd are both accepted within ISO 8601.

I believe you are referring to naming conventions for files and computing systems, not written use? If so, I agree with you, as Year>Month>Day is a particularly useful form of sorting by date.

YYYY-MM-DD or bust! /pitchfork