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by basch 1540 days ago
Do you put minutes before hours when you tell time?

Day before month creates some ambiguity regarding if you’re talking about the near past or near future.

If you consider MMDD a single unit, it doesn’t make sense to represent it backwards. You need to be able to tell that 0402 is a bigger base iterarion than 0302. If it’s DDMM 0203 and 0204 don’t appear to be an entire base count apart.

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I agree we disagree, here is why:

I am talking about what makes sense for people. And most of the people look at the calendar to know what day is today.

Regarding time, if you are asking me I will put minutes before hours in our era where every minute counts.

But before this speedy times, people where mostly concerned with hours.