• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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      Hungarians feeling superior with their YYYY.MM.DD fornat.

      Although that’s not ideal for URLs

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        I believe this is still valid according to ISO 8601 so have an upvote. It also works fine in URLs after the host part.

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        If I had a forint for something matching order in Hungary and Japan, I would have 2 forints, which isn’t a lot but its weird it happened twice. (Its the order of names and dates)

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      For history, sure, but for day to day stuff I think I can remember what year it is and don’t need it right at the front lol

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        I use this for notes, and generally everything written; mainly for reference when looking back on old information. Today, whether I say Wednesday the 9th, or 2023-08-09, it’s fairly inconsequential, but in 2-3 years if I have to reference a note, email or something else where I said today’s date, I won’t have to compare the date of the note to the calendar for that time period to see which 9th was on a Wednesday.

        Everything you do now becomes history, so adapting to this format makes it easier when today becomes your history.

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      But we read left to right and the most important part is furthest right hardest to read. It’s convenient for computers sorting alphabetically, but bad for people reading it.

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          Why? The year changes least quickly, (especially the decade) so you can often infer without needing it.

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            Because it’s the most significant. If it’s wrong or missing you’re off by much more than if the day or month is wrong.

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              But that’s good, like a parity check. Because your wrong by much more, it’s easier to tell from context clues. That’s why people abbreviated the year to ‘in 98’ or something like that.

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        Okay, hear me out.

        With other numbers, non-date numbers, we put the numbers representing the most quantity to the left, and numbers representing the last quantity to the right, eg 1 hundred, ten and 1 would be 111, where the number representing 100 qty comes first from the left, and each position moving to the right, represents a smaller and smaller amount.

        Since years are longer than months, which are longer than days, the YYYY-MM-DD format actually follows the same convention that we commonly use for all other numbering systems, big on the left, small on the right.

        So why would the date be the exception?