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Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't we just call them month 1 to month 12 like CJK languages do?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

No, it has to be month 0 to 11.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But in alphabetical order: 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not even in alphabetical order, three couldn't be before the four.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Computers sometimes sort in this logic: "1" is the first digit so everything that starts with "1" comes first. Alphabetical in this sense, not the names of the numbers written out as done in another comment under this post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Which is why ISO 8601 is superior.