Comment on Everyday, as an American
uis@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoConversion during conversation might be an extra step
Conversion is always extra step, but you don’t need it if you use same timezone as other participant.
Comment on Everyday, as an American
uis@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoConversion during conversation might be an extra step
Conversion is always extra step, but you don’t need it if you use same timezone as other participant.
linja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Except no because the digits themselves are still big-endian. That’s nUxi.
uis@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Mixed-endian. Or how I call it - abomination-endian.
linja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Right, and the most significant bit of the whole date is the first Y in YYYY, which we can’t put at the end unless we reverse the year itself. So we can either have pure big-endian, or PDP-endian. I know which one I’m picking.
Your literal statement is also just wrong. The solitary implication of endianness is byte ordering, because individual bits in a byte have no ordering in memory. Every single one has the exact same address; they have significance order, but that’s entirely orthogonal to memory. Hex readouts order nybbles on the same axis as memory so as not to require 256 visually distinct digits and because they only have two axes; that’s a visual artefact, and reflects nothing about the state of memory itself. ISO 8601 on the other hand is a visual representation, so digit and field ordering are in fact the same axis.
uis@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
We are talking about transferring data, not storing it. For example SPI allows both for LSB-first and MSB-first. In date digit-number-date is like bit-byte-word.