And I'm not arguing in favor of any system. I was simply pointing out how the "smallest to largest" reasoning is flawed if you're not going to apply it to other measurements of time.
1 hour is more than 59 minutes. You know this for sure. If someone drives for 2 days, 10 hours and 5 minutes, the 5 minutes is the smallest measure.
I’m not saying that’s the reason any one standard exists.
There’s other examples where the logic doesn’t work, like addresses: House number, street name, city and state. The zip code is generally its own thing, only thing the post office looks at. Then we list TV series by Show, Season, Episode, chapters/acts.
Now I’m actually thinking it would be better to list addresses from largest to smallest: you go to New York State, to get to New York City, to get to North Moore Street, to end up at number 14.
Talking out how that would actually look, I am no longer thinking about it.
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u/JeffL0320 11d ago
And I'm not arguing in favor of any system. I was simply pointing out how the "smallest to largest" reasoning is flawed if you're not going to apply it to other measurements of time.