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Re: Programming Bloat (WAS: Re: [opensuse] frustration and suggestions)
- From: Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 16:59:40 +0000
- Message-id: <200703031659.40669.dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 03 March 2007, peter nikolic wrote:
>
> The ISO standard of YYYY/MM/DD is not the most efficent way of using a date
>
It doesn't have to be the most efficient. It is no great shakes for a human to
extract the last two digits and interpret them as a day number. What is more
important for me is that it allows sorting and searching to be handled purely
numerically because yyyymmdd changes day by day by simple addition.
Dylan
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>
> The ISO standard of YYYY/MM/DD is not the most efficent way of using a date
>
It doesn't have to be the most efficient. It is no great shakes for a human to
extract the last two digits and interpret them as a day number. What is more
important for me is that it allows sorting and searching to be handled purely
numerically because yyyymmdd changes day by day by simple addition.
Dylan
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