i love yyyy-mm-dd dates & 12-hour clocks, and i also hate unix timestamps. we exist.

Submitted by emma at December 5, 2023, 2:45 PM in just_post

"I'll pick you up at 18 o'clock"
"the time is 1701594853"
"16:20 blaze it"

statements made by the utterly deranged

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nitori wrote at December 5, 2023, 3:02 PM

i love [...] 12-hour clocks

Counterpoint: 13:12

nitori wrote at December 5, 2023, 3:03 PM

Oh, and 13 December YYYY (13-12-YYYY) too lol

emma wrote at December 5, 2023, 3:05 PM

we get 1:3:12 twice a day, though

flabberghaster wrote at December 5, 2023, 5:52 PM

I use 24 hour time on all my devices but I only say stuff out loud like "I get off at 17:30" when I'm trying to annoy the person I'm telling that to. Normally I just translate it in my head.

hollyhoppet wrote at December 5, 2023, 6:45 PM

time formats were invented by big calendar to sell more clocks

winter wrote at December 5, 2023, 4:27 PM

true but ive never heard anyone unironically say 24 hour times in speech even here in england

personally i'm a big fan of yyyy-mm-dd and 24 hour and 12 hour and unix timestamp. they all have their place and purpose

emma wrote at December 5, 2023, 6:47 PM

they all have their place and purpose

in the case of unix timestamps, i seem to disagree with a lot of people what those are. i think using them in places where you expect humans to look is a bad use of them.

winter wrote at December 5, 2023, 9:53 PM

yeah!!

i think tbh this applies to even stuff like text-based protocols (yes json apis you count too) since the point of those is generally to be somewhat human readable? and unix timestamps are not that. and iso 8601 exists and is readable and sensible

emma wrote at December 5, 2023, 11:11 PM

yes json apis you count too

*whispers into mic* especially json apis