Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 days agoA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldimagemessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1722arrow-down155
arrow-up1667arrow-down1imageA funny thing about Americans and calendar dateslemmy.worldMickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square112fedilink
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoShould work if you have an RTL invert character before, right? (Not that you could name files with the slashes.)
minus-squareOsan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days 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-up0·3 days 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-up1·3 days agoYou want it displayed as “yyyy/mm/dd” so it’s actually “[RTL]dd/mm/yyyy”
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoAh, I read the original comment backwards.
Should work if you have an RTL invert character before, right? (Not that you could name files with the slashes.)
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.