Change request: Screenshot naming convention

Hello there,

It's been quite a while since I posted. Currently I'm actually tweaking a Linux window manager and I'm customizing a way to make and store screenshots. I liked the ffxiv naming convention for the most part but there is 1 small gripe.

As it stands now, a screenshot is saved as:

ffxiv_%d%m%Y_%H%M%S_%N.ext

Where %N is nanoseconds trimmed to milliseconds, and .ext is replaced with the format extention. e.g.

ffxiv_15072023_083800_642.png

Files are typically sorted in numerical and alphabetical order. The screenshots are clumped together nicely. But the dates at the start can make it a big mess to sort through. The days of different months (and even years) will mix together.

My proposal is to change this out to the following:

ffxiv_%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_%N.ext

Essentially, just the placement of the year and day are swapped and will always have the files in chronologically sorted order. taken from previous example:

ffxiv_20230715_083800_642.png

This could save a lot of time (and possible frustrations) for those who take a whole lot of screenshots and don't sort/clean them out very regularly. As the effects of the current inefficiency displays within a single month, most certainly between the switching of the month.

My thanks for taking this issue into consideration.

Sort by creation or modification date instead of by filename.

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Originally Posted by Rongway

Sort by creation or modification date instead of by filename.

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This only works until you start tinkering with them. If you make retouched copies of a screenshot, their creation dates won't match, and they won't be sorted together with the original.