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Imagine listing out the months of the year in one column on a blackboard. Obviously January would be at the top and December at the bottom. If you had to list t
by bobbylarrybobby 7y ago
Imagine listing out the months of the year in one column on a blackboard. Obviously January would be at the top and December at the bottom. If you had to list the hours of the day, 00:00 would be at the top and 23:00 at the bottom. I assume this is the logic they're using. (This is also how time is referred to in Mandarin -- the past is above and the future is below; last week is literally "the week above".)
- yoz-y 7y agoI don't agree that January would obviously be on the top. Consider that almost everything on the internet nowadays has the most recent piece of data on top: Twitter, Facebook, Email threads (anti-top-posting battle was lost years ago). As for Mandarin, yeah, that is true, but that is just one language among many. Some languages refer to past as "front" and future as "behind", should we make a 3d picker too? One reason they went with up/down may be to shelve the problem with right-to-left languages. But in that case they should use something more obvious. Note that a three letter abbreviation of a month is also not that much larger than an arrow...