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It sorts lexigraphically if it is zero padded.
by ClashTheBunny 9y ago
It sorts lexigraphically if it is zero padded.
- jwandborg 9y agoOnly as long as you zero-pad the year according to the maximum year in your list. I'll dub this "the year 10000" problem.
- continuational 9y agoBy the year 10000, hopefully terrestial time is long obsolete, and replaced with whatever makes sense for a multi-planet species.
- pjmlp 9y agoAssuming that is anyone left that cares about it.
- skriticos2 9y agoBased upon human stubbornness, every planet will have it's own time and date system that will be divided based on historically obscure details before/during and after colonization. Stuff like Thursday is essentially "Thor's day" and in German it literally says "day of the thunder" (Donnerstag). ps.: Thursday is also Jupiter's day, so it will probably prevail on any colony / permanent human station orbiting it/it's moons. pps.: I hope they get over the stupid imperial vs. metric divide though.. that one is really annoying.
- johnlbevan2 9y agoInterplanetary daylight savings could be a lot of fun too.
- pgeorgi 9y ago> I'll dub this "the year 10000" problem. http://longnow.org/about/ http://longnow.org/about/ "The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years."
- cpeterso 9y agoLong Now's use of five-digit years is also supposed to jolt readers and remind them to think in the bigger picture.