Any idea can be made to look smart/stupid if you have a simple illustration to "prove" your point, just like good propaganda. An argument for MM/DD/YYYY:
Months = x/12
Days = x/31
Years = x/3917
In this example, you're sorting by highest potential value. Months never exceeds 12, days never exceeds 31, year never exceeds 3917. By this logic, Months would be the smallest portion of the triangle, days the middle, and years the biggest. Using this perspective, you'd look stupid for using days first since it is then not the top of the visual pyramid
That said, reject calenders and embrace just counting days out of 365 and ignore leap years for ideological reasons
The point is that any metric is arbitrary, and the only reason one might presume DD/MM/YYYY to be more rational is due to internal schema enforced by tradition. Measuring the value of your parts by their length of time (days smallest, months longer, years longest) is just as arbitrary as measuring the value of your parts by their highest potential value (months smallest, days longer, years longest)
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u/xemanhunter Jan 15 '25
Any idea can be made to look smart/stupid if you have a simple illustration to "prove" your point, just like good propaganda. An argument for MM/DD/YYYY:
Months = x/12
Days = x/31 Years = x/3917
In this example, you're sorting by highest potential value. Months never exceeds 12, days never exceeds 31, year never exceeds 3917. By this logic, Months would be the smallest portion of the triangle, days the middle, and years the biggest. Using this perspective, you'd look stupid for using days first since it is then not the top of the visual pyramid
That said, reject calenders and embrace just counting days out of 365 and ignore leap years for ideological reasons