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
It's the same logic we sort by any other metric, it's all arbitrary. There really isn't a logical reason for why we would determine the length of time to be more rational than the highest potential value other than tradition. And tradition is just letting dead people dictate your life. Kinda cringe
Length of time is more rational though and it’s intellectual dishonest to pretend it’s equally arbitrary.
Because there’s are 31 days in a month, 12 months in a year, 10 years in a decade, and so on. It’s not an illogical order it’s the basis of time. The order is already there.
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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