Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 days agoA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldimagemessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1718arrow-down155
arrow-up1663arrow-down1imageA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldMickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-squareOsan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 hours agoRTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 hours agoBut if you type it as “[RTL invert]yyyy/mm/dd” it is automatically sorted correctly in ltr parsing systems but still displayed correctly (assuming it is supported which it seems to be on most devices nowadays).
minus-squareOsan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours agoYou want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoAh, I read the original comment backwards.
RTL invert characters are just for rendering purposes it doesn’t help with sorting also in older systems sometimes it was not supported.
But if you type it as “[RTL invert]yyyy/mm/dd” it is automatically sorted correctly in ltr parsing systems but still displayed correctly (assuming it is supported which it seems to be on most devices nowadays).
You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
Ah, I read the original comment backwards.