• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    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
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      14 hours 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.