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Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP by s_gourichon on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:05AM (#19387807)
Yes. ISO chooses year-month-day, which puts largest component first and smallest last. This has the nice benefit that treating it as a string and doing alphanumerical sort matches the actual day sort. Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
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Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP by rkangel on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:16AM (#19389378)
The main benefit of Y-M-D, is that no-one uses Y-D-M, and the 'Y' component is easily recognisable. So if you use Y-M-D, then everyone knows it's Y-M-D and there is no ambiguity.
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Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP by isostatic on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:55AM (#19397548)
I found out recently the x509/tls certa are YYMMDD

200122

For example. Amazing.

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Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP by isostatic on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:22AM (#19387901)
There are benefits to both little endian and big endian
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Re:Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:01AM (#19389250)
Yes, but the US uses middle endian.
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