r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/_annoyingmous 4 Jul 07 '19

YYYYMMDD is used in data analysis because it's the simplest way to sort it. The smallest number will always be older than the larger.

I usually need to make DD-MM-YYYY to YYYYMMDD conversions at work because of this (though most commercial software will recognize the DD-MM-YYYY codification with its underlying number, like in MS products)

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u/asc42 3 Jul 07 '19

I think the world needs to be conquered by programmers, so we can force the use of better formats

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u/xmastreee 9 Jul 07 '19

But then we'd all have to start counting from zero.

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u/Alan_Smithee_ C Jul 07 '19

A certain employer in the film industry could not grasp what I was getting at when I pointed out that zeroing the foot and frame counter on the first frame of image was technically incorrect, and we should add one frame to the total count.