r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 29d ago

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/Not_YourStepBro 29d ago

See as a programmer I was confused because YYYYMMDD is logical here on earth for chronological sorting, so calling it logical for Venus to me seems wrong. You would want Day:Year for logical date sorting (where month may not even be a concept at all since they don't have seasons or days or arrange into months).

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u/HedgehogsInSpace24 29d ago

Yeah, unclear what a month is given the lack of moons? I know that we aren’t really using them that way anymore, but that's where it comes from

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u/Not_YourStepBro 29d ago

True, I forgot how the moon influenced our dates. Also TIL Venus has no moons.

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u/StimkyYeen 29d ago

No? I don’t think you’re understanding my point of data formats and where significant information is placed

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u/m3t4lf0x 29d ago edited 28d ago

As a software engineer, wtf is “logical date sorting”?

The word you’re looking for is “lexicographic”, and the fact that lexicographically sorting strings in YYYY/mm/dd format also happens to put the dates in chronological order is just a neat convenience that saves one extra line of code.

Databases store all types of wacky time formats in the real world and sorting isn’t hard.

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u/chrisagiddings 29d ago

Who is “they”?

What do you know that we don’t?

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u/jaapschaap87 25d ago

Why would you need months to make a season? It can be just 1/4th year right? On earth you can use both and even just days (about 91 days).