I see the duality in this but I still think both are valid. When telling the time, there’s usually no point in including the seconds since they’ll have changed before you finish saying the whole thing anyway. In spoken word IMO it makes sense to go from more specific to less specific, and even not include extra parts sometimes (e. g. “today is the 3rd” when it’s expected to know the month and, well, year from context, or “it’s half past” to someone whom you’ve told the time a couple of minutes ago).
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Xyphius@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I feel like DD/MM/YYYY is the same as doing: ss:mm:HH and I find that confusing.
kamen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 month ago
The point is the order of importance, i am gonna need to know day and month we are in way more often than the year, i also want to know more often the hours and the minutes than the seconds, the seconds change way too often to be useful in most scenarios
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s really funny. DMY is more like Hms in that it is in descending order of relevance. Most people asking the date or time are looking for the hour of the day or the day of the month, and the rest is context.
Mavenbushlog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Files gwt sorted by alphanumerical order so YYYY-MM-DD is objectively superior in that regard
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My comment was about vocal human interaction, not on a device.
I agree with that in principle, but a) it should be in meta data and b) it should be abstracted so the user can display any format they wish. As a last resort, in the file name, sure. That standard adds a lot of extra time gumpf