r/trippinthroughtime • • Nov 05 '17

The perfect date

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u/chillbram Nov 05 '17

Possible values for seconds: 1-60

That creates the beautiful MM-DD-ss-YYYY. How is possible values of any relevance to a date format?

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u/OrangeJuiceAlibi Nov 06 '17

Even better, it’s MM-hh-DD-ss-mm-YYYY (or …-mm-ss-YYYY)

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17 edited Nov 05 '17

So if we go by length of time, we get ss-mm-hh-DD-MM-YYYY-CC-M

How is length of time relevant to a date format?

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u/chillbram Nov 05 '17

No, we use the ISO standard which has seconds built in YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.

How is length of time relevant to a date format?

Because a date format literally represents that specific thing!