• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Considering how there’s almost no computers anymore with such limited resources that they can’t store a string or convert to one, it’s kind of crazy anybody bothers with the ambiguity of using numbers for the month.

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        1 year ago

        The limited resource is not Compute Power, but Engineer time. Sure, you could ask someone to implement wrappers everywhere in the system so that the display is human-readable - or you could put one label somewhere clarifying the date format to readers.

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          1 year ago

          Implement wrappers everywhere? Why can’t they just write a single function that takes an ISO date a spits out a string (human readable) date? I’d put money down that such a function already exists in almost every library that deals with dates.

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            That’s why I said “implement” and not just “write”. The process of wiring in that existing function has non-negligible cost, as does keeping it updated/patched.

            Sure, it should be pretty small - but it’s non-zero. Is it worth it? That’s a product decision.

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      1 year ago

      Yes spreadsheet apps like excel do this. If I remember correctly MMMM would write the full month. January.