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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sample batch two is the correct way to do it with one exception the date mechanism. YYYY.MM.DD is the correct format that should always be used in any naming convention.

The best setup I've ever seen was: YYYY.MM.DD - LTxx example 2014.07.15 - 1804 LT was the lab tech # and xx was the sample # associated with the lab tech and date.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

YYMMDD-SITE-SAMPLE_ID

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As someone who lived through Y2K not using 4 digits for year just makes me itchy. The rest would be fantastic for a large multi building setup like Mayo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Until you have more than 100 lab techs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But you can represent up to 999 lab techs with only 1 more digit. Or 946 lab techs with just 2 alpha numeric characters. Heck just 2 letters gets you 676 combinations. About 17,000 combos with 3 letters and more than 40,000 if you use 3 alphanumeric characters.