• mercano@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m an American, but always use big endian dates when naming files or folder on the computer. That way, an alphabetical sort is also a date sort. (Probably why ISO dates are also big endian.)

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      1 year ago

      NUMBERS are big endian. You read them from left to right. 61 is greater than 16, no question asked. A date is just a special number, it’s not decimal, but uses a custom system