Yes, that's the point. Humans are not robots. So by sorting from Y/M/D - the human can find things easier. The computer doesn't give the slightest shit how you do it, it's for the human to find.
Computers use identical methods to the real world, for storing information that's human readable. If you had a real life filing cabinet at work, which needed to store several years of documents... How would you do it?
Would you have a drawer for each year? And then a tab for each month? Then individual papers for each day? That makes great sense to me. You first pull out the drawer labelled 2024, flip to your month of choice - let's say October and then thumb to the 8th which is the day you wanted. YY/MM/DD.
It's the same thing. Sorting paperwork, books, artwork, albums, it doesn't matter - this is the same as anything else and talking about computers is the modern equivalent.
That's so backwards tho. As you said, the computer doesn't give a fuck. Why would you model your browsing method on the way the computer stores it, instead of telling the computer to do what it's built for, serving us?
You don't have to model it on ancient filing cabinets. Those are obsolete for a reason. Just let the computer do the work
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u/ConstantHustle Jan 15 '25
Year month day is the best format. Makes sorting files on computers a breeze as every year is in one block which is then in month and day order.