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

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[-] subway@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] feck_it@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] President_Pyrus@feddit.dk 2 points 1 year ago

Which is why ISO 8601 is superior.

[-] feck_it@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

No, it has to be month 0 to 11.

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