Re:Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
by pratik_kanthi on Thursday September 21, 2023 @09:00PM
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Oh really? I guess we’ve all been doing it wrong for centuries! Perhaps while we're at it, we should propose a new system where the months come before the days, just to keep our dates in perfect lexicographic order. Who needs tradition and worldwide acceptance, when we could have perfectly sorted dates?
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Re:Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
by dannyobrien on Thursday September 21, 2023 @09:14PM
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Welp, that's what ISO 8601 is there for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
Re:Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
by mulmen on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:37PM
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Re:Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
by tuatoru on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:46AM
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We didn't need sorted dates before we started using unstructured media to store information.
Hand-written accounting journals, day books, have date ordering built into their physical substrate. It didn't matter how dates were given orally (some places: "today is the 23rd of June 1844"; others: "it's June 23, 1844 today"); nor did it matter that this ordering was transcribed onto the paper, using month numbers rather than the names of the months.
Now we do need to sort dates, so let's turn Japanese.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Japa...