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Having a date format that's different from the rest of the whole world to optmise for the case of being cutoff when speaking doesn't sound super reasonable.
by sabellito 6y ago
Having a date format that's different from the rest of the whole world to optmise for the case of being cutoff when speaking doesn't sound super reasonable.
- supernova87a 6y agoWell, I don't really mean it's for the protection of the case that your sentence gets cut off -- when is that going to happen in practice. I meant in terms of word order when thinking about the concept of date from general to specific, (I at least) think it's more logical. And in yyyy-mm-dd, it comes first. But, yes it is only a convention. We do lots of other things in society without similar rationale.
- function_seven 6y agoIt's like how calculators and telephone keypads are opposite. Each one feels natural in its own domain, but weird if used for the other purpose (i.e. Try dialing a phone number you're used to dialing all the time, but on a calculator. You can do it, but it don't feel right) With identifiers, we sometimes go from specific>general. Street addresses start with the house number first, then street, then city, state, etc. Domain names are the same. Most specific first, general TLD last. But then there are directory paths, (drive > folder > file), phone numbers (country > area > exchange > subscriber), and legal citations (code/title > chapter > section > paragraph > etc.) Which makes the American date format truly an outlier. 2020-09-13 seems right to me, but I think I prefer 13 SEP 2020. It's more aesthetic I think, and it also recognizes that there is no month called "9". Days and years are naturally numbered, but months have names.