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When you write the time, do you put the minutes to the left or the right of the hour?
by raldi 8y ago
When you write the time, do you put the minutes to the left or the right of the hour?
- uryga 8y agoI think that the timescale on which humans live matters here. The year field doesn't change often, so for the everyday usecase it's kind of redundant – it's probably the current year, so specifying it first is kind of noisy[1]. But on the scale of hours, it's the minutes that are noise, because you likely care more about the hour. So I guess the most ergonomic ordering depends on the usecase. [1] This could be different if you're, say, browsing an archive. Still, if I'm looking at a thread from 2005, that context is in my head, and I don't need to be constantly reminded of that by seeing 2005-XX-YY.
- ubernostrum 8y agoIn English, at least, it used to be that a document such as a letter would begin with a date indicating when it was written, and then for dates ±1 month from that date would express relatively, like so: * "The 10th instant" / "10th inst." = tenth day of current month indicated in date of document * "The 10th ultimo" / "10th ult." = tenth day of month preceding the one indicated in date of document * "The 10th proximo" / "10th prox." = tenth day of month following the one indicated in date of document