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It also caught my attention, presumably these are represented internally as files in numbered dirs - so in this instance you end up with a strange hierarchy where the day of the month you published has a higher precedence than the month. Which doesn't seem particularly valuable to me..

Really? It's very common to use YYYYDDMM. It sorts well numerically if you're wanting to group them even slightly.

YYYYMMDD sorts very well chronologically, but YYYYDDMM would only be useful in a very specific set of circumstances (generously speaking I can only really think of it being useful in cases where you have events that occur once a month on the same day, and for some reason it's more important to have those grouped together than to separate them by month).

I suspect you misread and mistyped, but if not, I'd be really interested to hear cases where YYYYDDMM is actually practically useful!

I thought it was YYYYMMDD. Woops.

Uh, WHAT?

How at all is YYYYDDMM better than YYYYMMDD? Is there any single advantage?

Yeah my bad. I thought it was YYYYMMDD.

author here: i fucked up lol, but now the link is fixed so im scared to change it