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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (10 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I often see the year being the most important in my archive. Followed by month, then day (which is often left out because the document is monthly).

And the why; because it sorts alphabetically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

Maybe it's not least important for everyone?

Almost like the preference can change depending on application...

If I'm looking at a folder full of spreadsheets, one each month (or even day) for several years, and they are all titled according to YYYY-MM-DD. All you need to do is sort by filename and now you have it broken down by year, into one spreadsheet per month/day.

And only needed to click one button to sort them into an easily readable format.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You can skip the year and just do 1-26

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

Y'all be riskin it without holocene crypty

SYSM:YY.DM.TzYDY.H.H

4:40.42p EST on Jan 28, 12,025 ->

  • 4120:20.21.-4285.1.6

That's the one that was active when I started typing. However, I change it randomly using the decay of a radioactive isotope that is randomly chosen by the decay of a separate amount of Uranium-238. I'm two randoms in. This way, my time records are always encrypted using open-science source and the government can't hack the pictures of my parking spots at the oncology center to sell them to the NIMBYs at MetAlphabet AI.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How is day smaller than month? There are up to 12 values for month, but up to 31 for days

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