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Long 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 beginn
by jameshart 5y ago
Long 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.