Time Revisited

A number of people have replied to my rant about the 24 hour clock, trying to convince me that DD-MM-YYYY is actually superior to YYYY-MM-DD. It's not. Never was. The problem is that DD-MM-YYYY is too easily confused with the popular MM-DD-YYYY. So if you want to write the date as numbers and always be clear, write YYYY-MM-DD. It will not be confused with YYYY-DD-MM, as YYYY-DD-MM doesn't exist.

Also, a lot of people think since the year changes infrequently then it should be written last. This is wrong. Since it doesn't change much, it should always be written FIRST. Example? The number system. When writing the numbers from 1 to 100, the digit in the ones column changes 100 times. The digit in the hundreds column changes only once, but it is written first. Why should this standard be used? Because we sure as hell learned to fucking count before we knew what day it was! Hell we didn't even have anything to base time on until Christ came to town. But by then, I think we at least had the wheel and number system figured out. Again, write YYYY-MM-DD or hellfire will be upon you!

Yes, I realize that other calendar systems exist (and some are still being used), but the point is that no benefits will come of writing the date smallest time quantum first. Who actually cares what the day was? In the long term, its the year that matters. 2005-01-02 16:49. Clear. Concise. Also happens to be the ISO standard. Understood by everyone on the planet as 4 o'clock in the afternoon on January 2nd, 2005. But then write 01-02-2005 4:49 PM. Nobody will actually know if its January 2nd or February 1st, and a lot of people overseas will be wondering what "PM" means. Good job, keep confusing the world, as if it isn't confused enough.

What have we learned? Don't argue with Sheldon, the big units always go first, and my unit is assuredly bigger than yours. If you want to be as cool as me, go read about this calendar.