20080111

20080111 is a numeric date stamp written in the YYYYMMDD format, representing the 11th day of January in the year 2008. In the Gregorian calendar, 2008 was a leap year; January 11 fell on a Friday.

The eight-digit sequence is commonly used in computing and information systems because its fixed width allows straightforward sorting and comparison: the numeric value increases monotonically with calendar date, and textual representations with separators can complicate automatic processing. As a result, 20080111 appears in file names, database keys, log entries, version numbers, and other data identifiers where a compact, sortable date is desirable.

In practice, the 8-digit YYYYMMDD form is widely recognized, though it can be ambiguous without context in international settings that use different date orders. To promote clarity, many standards (such as ISO 8601) represent the same date as 2008-01-11 or include explicit time components when needed.

Some programming environments may treat 20080111 as a number rather than a date, potentially causing formatting issues when leading zeros are involved in other parts of the date (for example, month 01). In data interchange, it is common to pad or normalize dates to fixed-width strings to avoid misinterpretation.

See also: ISO 8601, YYYYMMDD, date formatting, digital chronology.