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Anon goes to Japan (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You start with the most gradual denominator

So, the year. YYYY-MM-dd.

and you sometimes skip the larger ones because they can be evident

So, skip the month: dd-MM-YYYY.

There's no scenario in which MM-dd-YYYY makes more sense. Unless you're expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Unless you're expecting to communicate with someone with heavy brain damage who cannot retain information for 0.2 seconds, I guess?

I mean, that's not an argument for a better system, though; if you're saying, "Yeah; you won't be able to contextualize this info. yet until the next bit of info. in 0.2 seconds," a person can certainly do that but it's still working-around the inefficiency by retaining the day – which means nothing in any context which requires knowing the month – until you find out which month the day in question is in 0.2 seconds later.