Why should I care?įirst and most obvious, it will make your files easier to manage no matter what OS you use. Okay, so I know a bunch of stuff about date formatting in files now. You can see more info here on that if you like.

Year/Month/Day is proper big endian formatting and follows ISO 8601 international standard. Why Year/Month/Day and not Year/Day/Month? If you know all the letters are lowercase, this decreases typing mistakes significantly. Where case of letters is involved, mistakes can be made easily – especially if it’s a long file title. You use lowercase just in case you ever have to upload this from a command line via FTP. Underscore is it.ĭescription of file in lowercase letters with words separated by underscoresĪs said above, this is optional. A replacement must be used for the space to avoid this. In addition, you use underscores because trying to send a file over the internet with a literal space in it results in a %20, or just fails on attempt to transfer. Using underscores gives a clean visual cue as to what’s a descriptor and what’s a date. The underscore (this character: _) is necessary because the dates uses dashes already. You do this for the exact same reason as for the month. Two digit day of month or single digit day of month with leading zero

Windows find files by date