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ISO 8601 ftw rule (gregtech.eu)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by lena@gregtech.eu to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Why would the year, the least important, need to be first?

And why are the pieces of the pyramid made so the ISO standard is the only one that looks right? ss:mm:hh:DD:MM:YYYY would also order the numbers based on length, but would look terrible if represented like that

[–] lena@gregtech.eu -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can skip the year and just do 1-26

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's funny seeing everyone in here thinking only of the one specific thing they use this for, not recognizing that the most useful order can change depending on the purpose of the data.

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