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> nutmeg is toxic to humans in surprisingly small amounts. I wouldn't eat half a nutmeg by myself in one sitting! It seems to be an affectation encouraged by t
by JetSetWilly 5y ago
> nutmeg is toxic to humans in surprisingly small amounts. I wouldn't eat half a nutmeg by myself in one sitting!
It seems to be an affectation encouraged by the Long Now Foundation: https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-and-10k-compliance-at-home/ https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...
- mongol 5y agoI can kind of understand it if you develop a database schema. But I don't see the point for regular text. No constraints exist, you can write whatever numbers you want.
- jameshart 5y agoLong now philosophy is that writing years that way encourages you to think about history on a different scale. To consider the date now as being near the beginning of a long future of history, rather than as at the end of a long line of history. Or, when looking at a historical date like 01694 to realize it’s not so very far from 02022.
- Freak_NL 5y agoThis particular affectation seems really far from overcoming its current limitation of being a readability roadblock.
- wizzwizz4 5y agoI didn't find it particularly bad for readability. Then again, I'm used to ISO dates (2022-01-30).
- Freak_NL 5y agoIt's the leading zero that throws me off and makes me look for a day-of-month or month number in a string that is too short to have one and a leading zero. ISO 8601 dates are fine.
- mark-r 5y agoISO 8601 dates are perfect! It's too bad they're not more popular. I tried to push for them in labels used in a manufacturing plant with locations both in the U.S. and Ireland. Seems like a slam dunk because it eliminates the confusion about whether the month or day comes first. In the end I had to compromise on the month specified by abbreviation rather than number: 2022-Jan-30.
- dorfsmay 5y agoAnd, it made me wonder if it was an octal representation of something.