• nabana [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Because we don't sort any list or value by incrementing the leftmost digit most. On top of that dd mm yy actually increments the second most, then the first, then the 4th, then the 3rd, then the 8th 7th 6th 5th. Do you want to write the time as seconds minutes hours or minutes seconds hours or just keep it logically hhmmss?

    I mean at the end of the day everything is just a means of conveying information so as long as it does ok at doing that you do you boo it's all preference and I'm fine however. But when it's a STANDARD. Nah fam. We do that shit the proper way. Spend about 5 minutes developing software to handle dates and times (not using libraries written by people who have screamed into the void about shooting anyone not using ISO 8601 and/or digital time standards like the unix timestamp beginning at/referencing seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. (In super simplified terms)

    Seriously anyone who has written those libraries to handle peoples fucked up varieties of timestamps might possibly murder anyone around when it's mentioned if someone implies any other time standard "isn't a big deal". It's grade A high quality trauma working on those.