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the one true way: budget_09.csv, budget_10.csv

by arccy 1y ago

NekkoDroid 1y ago
Then `budget_100.csv` comes by and now you need to rename 99 files.
- xigoi 1y ago
  It’s been about two thousand years since the number of months in a year has been increased. I don’t think we’re getting 88 new ones anytime soon.
  - thaumasiotes 1y ago
    > It’s been about two thousand years since the number of months in a year has been increased. What? What are you thinking of? The number of months in a year is always 12 or 13 in any calendar system because they start by reflecting the moon. If you mean the Christian calendar, it was fixed at 12 months to the year well over 2000 years ago. If you mean any calendar, it's probably been more like one year since the number of months in a year has been increased. 12 lunar months falls short of a solar year by about 11 days, so any given lunar calendar will generate an extra month about every three years, and there are lots of different lunar calendars. (For example, the Chinese calendar occasionally repeats full months in order to keep the month of the year lined up with the season. Whenever this happens, there will be 13 months in the year, of which two share the same name.)
    - prewett 1y ago
      The ancient Romans claimed to have had a 10-month calendar [1], which is what I assume the reference is. Either that, or when month 6 got renamed August in honor of Emperor Augustus [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar#Legendary_10-month_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar#Legendary_10-mo...
      - thaumasiotes 1y ago
        > The ancient Romans claimed to have had a 10-month calendar [1], which is what I assume the reference is. Well, in the first place (as you note), there is no reason to believe that claim - the ancient Romans never made such a claim, but the classical Romans made that claim about the ancient Romans - but more importantly even if it were true the months would have been added many centuries prior to "about two thousand years" ago. Nothing related to additional months happened two thousand years ago.
  - NekkoDroid 1y ago
    Sure, but if in this case the number would have only indicated the month you have an issue way earlier than 100 actually, you already have an issue on month 13 when you would go back got 01 and now you are overriding the old one.
    - xigoi 1y ago
      Presumably there is a separate directory for every year.
  - kuschku 1y ago
    And it's been about 25 years since we had to increase the number of digits for a year. budget_97.csv, budget_98.csv, budget_99.csv, budget_2000.csv
- coldtea 1y ago
  Given that 09 and 10 refer to months, that wont ever gonna be a problem. And if you want to differentiate them years too, you can prefix with 2025- or put them in a 2025/, 2026/ etc folder.
coldtea 1y ago
Even better, I'd prefer to have more semantic meaning, and for budget-2025-09.csv, buget-2025-10.csv to work everywhere...

the one true way: budget_09.csv, budget_10.csv

by arccy 1y ago

the one true way: budget_09.csv, budget_10.csv

NekkoDroid 1y ago

Then `budget_100.csv` comes by and now you need to rename 99 files.

xigoi 1y ago
It’s been about two thousand years since the number of months in a year has been increased. I don’t think we’re getting 88 new ones anytime soon.
- thaumasiotes 1y ago
  > It’s been about two thousand years since the number of months in a year has been increased. What? What are you thinking of? The number of months in a year is always 12 or 13 in any calendar system because they start by reflecting the moon. If you mean the Christian calendar, it was fixed at 12 months to the year well over 2000 years ago. If you mean any calendar, it's probably been more like one year since the number of months in a year has been increased. 12 lunar months falls short of a solar year by about 11 days, so any given lunar calendar will generate an extra month about every three years, and there are lots of different lunar calendars. (For example, the Chinese calendar occasionally repeats full months in order to keep the month of the year lined up with the season. Whenever this happens, there will be 13 months in the year, of which two share the same name.)
  - prewett 1y ago
    The ancient Romans claimed to have had a 10-month calendar [1], which is what I assume the reference is. Either that, or when month 6 got renamed August in honor of Emperor Augustus [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar#Legendary_10-month_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar#Legendary_10-mo...
    - thaumasiotes 1y ago
      > The ancient Romans claimed to have had a 10-month calendar [1], which is what I assume the reference is. Well, in the first place (as you note), there is no reason to believe that claim - the ancient Romans never made such a claim, but the classical Romans made that claim about the ancient Romans - but more importantly even if it were true the months would have been added many centuries prior to "about two thousand years" ago. Nothing related to additional months happened two thousand years ago.
- NekkoDroid 1y ago
  Sure, but if in this case the number would have only indicated the month you have an issue way earlier than 100 actually, you already have an issue on month 13 when you would go back got 01 and now you are overriding the old one.
  - xigoi 1y ago
    Presumably there is a separate directory for every year.
- kuschku 1y ago
  And it's been about 25 years since we had to increase the number of digits for a year. budget_97.csv, budget_98.csv, budget_99.csv, budget_2000.csv
coldtea 1y ago
Given that 09 and 10 refer to months, that wont ever gonna be a problem. And if you want to differentiate them years too, you can prefix with 2025- or put them in a 2025/, 2026/ etc folder.

coldtea 1y ago

Even better, I'd prefer to have more semantic meaning, and for budget-2025-09.csv, buget-2025-10.csv to work everywhere...