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drostie on Jan 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour i...

I'm just glad that nobody in Europe seems to use YYYY/DD/MM. This means that the format "YYYY-MM-DD" is unambiguous and the lexical ordering of dates is the same as their natural ordering[1], which is useful for sorting files in folders.

[1] Except for years BCE which the scheme doesn't treat.

raldi on Jan 15, 2014 [–]

Indeed. And even better, Y-M-D H:M:S is monotonically decreasing.

noselasd on Jan 15, 2014 | [–]

Except at DST switch.

MichaelGG on Jan 15, 2014 | | [–]

DST and timezones in general are an abomination anyways.

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