Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5か月前A funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldimagemessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1726arrow-down155
arrow-up1671arrow-down1imageA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldMickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5か月前message-square104fedilink
minus-squareOsan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5か月前RTL 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-up0·5か月前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).
minus-squareOsan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5か月前You want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5か月前Ah, 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.