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> 01852, 173 years ago That's some serious forward thinking you've got going on with your date format there. I like it, I will be formatting all my years to
by Shorn 10mo ago
> 01852, 173 years ago
That's some serious forward thinking you've got going on with your date format there. I like it, I will be formatting all my years to 5 digits from now on.
OTOH, if it was just a typo - keep it to yourself, I don't wanna know. I'm all in - 5 digit years is a thing now.
- silisili 10mo agoNobody seems to care about the y100k problem this introduces. 001852 is safe for a million years!
- Alive-in-2025 10mo agoOnly losers don't pad dates out to 10 digits to account for when Donald Trump passes off his earthly coil.
- bombcar 10mo agoBig miss on your name not being Alive-in-0000002025
- alive0000002025 10mo agoHa! Well I am a loser then! I tried to create that suggested name for a new account and it says max 15 chars in a user name But I could do this one ;-)
- cadamsdotcom 10mo agoYou might find your crowd among the Long Now Foundation, they love their 5-digit years.
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- dingnuts 10mo agothis thing where someone performs an in group practice (the leading zero behavior) to garner interest, and then another in group member appears to try to recruit the curious person who takes the bait, that y'all are doing? it's creepy cult behavior, and the "Long Now" name and framing focused on the infinite isn't helping
- jacquesm 10mo ago> I like it, I will be formatting all my years to 5 digits from now on. Please don't, it's highly irritating and usually just serves as a way to get people to discuss the leading zero rather than the subject they were really interested in in the first place. Leading zeros aren't a thing for a reason. It's about as useful as expressing the temperature in Kelvin.
- aydyn 10mo agoCoincidentally, the temperatures in the Farmer's Almanac are all in Kelvin.
- jacquesm 10mo agoDegrees Kelvin has its place, just as leading zeros. The Farmer's Almanac may have a point but if they do I can't see it and to put a leading zero in front of a year is just annoying. Think about it: how would you pronounce the dates from now on, are you really going to say 'Today is the 7th of november of zero-two-zero-two-five'? And why stop at one zero, really forward thinking people should start counting from the big bang up, that's as close as you can get to the Kelvin analogy, might as well take it all the way then.
- tdeck 10mo agoIf they do indeed use Kelvin, perhaps it's to reduce percent error? :)
- ninalanyon 10mo ago> Degrees Kelvin Not degrees. The unit is simply the kelvin.
- jacquesm 10mo agoYou are right.
- 9rx 10mo ago> Leading zeros aren't a thing for a reason. If they aren't a thing, why are we talking about them? Clearly they're a thing. And not even an obscure thing. If you've ever used commonly used representations like ZIP codes, bank account numbers, or serial numbers you'll no doubt have encountered it before. And that even goes for dates. ISO 8601, for example, requires leading zeros, including for the year component. "1" is not considered a valid year under that standard. It must be represented as "0001". Granted, ISO 8601 only requires a minimum of four characters to represent the year, but expecting at least five characters is conceptually just as valid.
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- shagie 10mo agoRFC 2550 Section 3.1 has years from 0000 to 9999 as four digit but zero padded (so the fall of Rome was 0476). It then gets appropriately weird as it was published April 1, 1999. You might also enjoy the Kurzgesagt human era calendar - https://youtu.be/29pN-2KM2DI https://youtu.be/29pN-2KM2DI - https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/collections/calendar https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/collections/calendar
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- echelon 10mo ago> That's some serious forward thinking you've got going on with your date format there. I like it, I will be formatting all my years to 5 digits from now on. I like this. I wonder what other conventions we could break by being "forward-thinking" in this sense. Past tense for all proper names ("America was...", "Google was..."), prices pegged to energy equivalents (bananas were priced at 10 kWh). Describing life on the North American Plate under Alpha Centauri aligned constellations... Those are all awkward. The date thing is just smooth.
- unwind 10mo agoNobody posted [1] yet, it feels like it's needed. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation