Chris Cook on Mythryl: “Ordinal dates with year-dayOfYear (YYYY-DDD) even have an ISO…”

Ordinal dates with year-dayOfYear (YYYY-DDD) even have an ISO standard. And the math is so simple, because days are absolute (24*60*60 s) whereas months are relative (28/30/31 d). Basically you only need to know if the year has 365 or 366 days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal...

Chris Cook@zirkelc.dev

Date and time is a fascinating topic. You basically only simple arithmetic (plus, minus, multiply, divide) to manipulate a millisecond value. It's weird how we've made it more complicated with calendars and timezones. Using ordinal numbers (day of the year) would simplify so much.

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