Amazon is running a Prime Day sale on July 16 and 17. Setting aside the fact that this is two separate days, neither 716 nor 717 are prime numbers. They should’ve done 7/19 instead.

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    4 months ago

    I maintain that dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy are stupid.

    Big -> small is how we read numbers:

    yyyy/mm/dd

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      4 months ago

      What if we just count all the nanoseconds since 1601 and divide by 100.

      I still don’t get that timestamp approach. Especially after learning how unix/linux handle it…

      At least modern AD tools can automatically do the date conversions now.

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      4 months ago

      Yes but small is more relevant since you’re more likely to know the big. therefore i propose we put minutes ahead of hours.

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      4 months ago

      I prefer the simple dy/my/dy/my format (with the year reversed for added ease of use). For example, today would be 14/02/70/72.

      NIST and ISO have stopped responding to my emails, but I’m optimistic that the Türk Standardları Enstitüsü will eventually adopt it as their preferred standard.