Freedom Clock

#1

Post by edent » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:04 PM UTC

Re: Freedom Clock

#2

Post by andrewfromx » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

Should we list hours, minutes, seconds? or year, month, day? Should we drive on the right side of the road or left? Should we use imperial or metric system? These are all good questions but I think the answer is "it depends." Just like timezones. You can't get rid of timezones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416337

https://qntm.org/abolish

Re: Freedom Clock

#3

Post by jacknews » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:49 PM UTC

I get it, it's really annoying that there are different formats.

In fact I once nerfed a small database by importing a bunch dates from a csv in the wrong format.

But honestly both formats (M/D/Y and D/M/Y) are wrong, as clear from the clock example: dates should be big-endian; Y/M/D.

Re: Freedom Clock

#4

Post by mattnewton » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:49 PM UTC

Seems broken on mobile? I just see a black bar. I assume from the description it has the hours/minutes/seconds in a weird order

Re: Freedom Clock

#5

Post by chewbacha » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:52 PM UTC

jacknews wrote: post #3

I get it, it's really annoying that there are different formats. In fact I once nerfed a small database by importing a bunch dates from a csv in the wrong format. But honestly both formats (M/D/Y and D/M/Y) are wrong, as clear from the clock example: dates should be big-endian; Y/M/D.

Iso8601 for the win!

Re: Freedom Clock

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Post by nozzlegear » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:54 PM UTC

The monkey’s paw curls, and Americans adopt this time format as well just to spite the rest of the world for complaining about their preferred date format.

Re: Freedom Clock

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Post by haswell » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

mattnewton wrote: post #4

Seems broken on mobile? I just see a black bar. I assume from the description it has the hours/minutes/seconds in a weird order

I'm seeing the same issue in Safari on macOS.

Re: Freedom Clock

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Post by jstanley » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:57 PM UTC

jacknews wrote: post #3

I get it, it's really annoying that there are different formats. In fact I once nerfed a small database by importing a bunch dates from a csv in the wrong format. But honestly both formats (M/D/Y and D/M/Y) are wrong, as clear from the clock example: dates should be big-endian; Y/M/D.

While I agree that big-endian dates are the best solution (if nothing else, because lexical sort puts it in the right order), I think little-endian at least makes sense. The middle-endian format is just absurd.

Re: Freedom Clock

#9

Post by favaq » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:57 PM UTC

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Re: Freedom Clock

#10

Post by gs17 » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 2:57 PM UTC

Where's the European clock with the seconds first?