Use alphanumeric date/time (organize your file names with a good date/time standard).

I’ve noticed a general standard (in the US) for dates: (March 24, 2008) or (3/24/08)
And for time: 10:15pm

But this standard is not alphanumeric. For anything relating to (or using) computers and software, such as file and folder names, alphanumeric is better (in other words, alphanumeric is better). For ex, it organizes more easily in any file explorer. For ex, you can process the files more easily with scripts. For ex, it lines up better (easier) in a spreadsheet or text file.

Here is a much better format for date/time: (2008/03/24 10:15pm) or (2008/03/24 22:15:15) (22 hr 15 min 15 sec)
Or for a file name: 2008_03_24_2215_15
ISO 8601: [YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]
If we were closer to 10,000 A.D., then I’d support: [YYYYY]-[MM]-[DD]

The first setting I adjusted in WordPress was its default date and time format:
Year Month Date Time format in WordPress
Default date format: Y/m/d (l, F j, Y)
Default time format: G:i (g:i a)

I put the “bad” US standard time in parenthesis, in case the better format confuses anyone. I have to admit that I’m actually kind of trained to see clocks in 12-hour AM/PM time, even though I would never use that for a file name.

Anyway, the point is to make it alphanumeric (with two digits for month, and two digits for date, such as 2008/03/01) (year then month then day).

Update (2008/03/29):
* updated screen shot for wordpress 2.5
* I noticed that WordPress can use a good date format URLs this such as /index.php/../pemtech/2008/03 and /index.php/../pemtech/2008/03/24 – yay for WordPress!
Year Month Date Time URL in WordPress

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