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Anon goes to Japan (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (6 children)

How the fuck did anon post from the future though?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Just America's stupid date format.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I've been using yyyymmdd and was appalled when I found out the ones appaled by the American method uses ddmmyyyy. It doesn't even sort chronologicaly in alpha numeric ordering. Just why???

Edit: I just realized that ddmmyyyy looks like dummy and that's how I'm going to refer to it from now on.

[–] accideath@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When naming files that need to be alphanumerically sorted, yyyymmdd it’s absolutely what anyone I know will use. But in writing or language, mmddyyyy is the way to go. You start with the most gradual denominator, since it’s the most important and you sometimes skip the larger ones because they can be evident

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You start with the most gradual denominator

So, the year. YYYY-MM-dd.

and you sometimes skip the larger ones because they can be evident

So, skip the month: dd-MM-YYYY.

There's no scenario in which MM-dd-YYYY makes more sense. Unless you're expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Unless you're expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?

I mean, that's not an argument for a better system, though; if you're saying, "Yeah; you won't be able to contextualize this info. yet until the next bit of info. in 0.2 seconds," a person can certainly do that but it's still working-around the inefficiency by retaining the day – which means nothing in any context which requires knowing the month – until you find out which month the day in question is in 0.2 seconds later.

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