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

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[–] subway@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 3 years ago (6 children)

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

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] feck_it@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 years ago (2 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.

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[–] President_Pyrus@feddit.dk 2 points 3 years ago

Which is why ISO 8601 is superior.

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[–] feck_it@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago

Oh, why i didn't consider that, my education background didn't help i guess, thank you.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 years ago

No, it has to be month 0 to 11.

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