LabVIEW
sort timestamp array
Number should always be written in a MSB order, regardless och which numbers it is, thus it should be YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm. Other solutions are actually misleading and stupid. How often do you hear people talking about how they're 5"6' or the time is 48:8 (although you usually say 17 past 5, but that usually refers to the hour being relatively well known, just like some people answer 81 when asked how tall they are, since the 1m is rather obvious).
Powerlifters have the same use of language, they lift/train at 60kg, since the 100 is redundant. 🙂 Technically it'd be '60 kg then, since it's an abbreviation.
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@littlesphaeroid wrote:
Dates should probably not be written in a culturally ambivalent fashion. Year first is not common in any cultural context I've encountered, and obviously whether you put the month or date first depends on where you are. However, as a basic timestamp, without punctuation (eg 20131026), an 8-digit year-month-date sorts correctly.
Welcome to Europe/Sweden. Date's are always written as 131026. 🙂
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@littlesphaeroid wrote:
Dates should probably not be written in a culturally ambivalent fashion.
You have full control over the timestamp indicator format and sorting of timestamps is always correct.
As long as you don't try to sort ASCII formatted time strings (but that would be asking for trouble anyway!), you are always fine.
@Ranjeet_Singh wrote:
@billko wrote:
@Ranjeet_Singh wrote:
Unused elements says MM-DD-YYYY(I Saw that). As it was told earlier that this is perfecly valid but we normally follow DD-MM-YYYY. Just I uploaded the VI with same format.
It depends on who "we" are. In the USA, it is common to use MM/DD/YYYY. If you are a programmer, you probably use YYYY/MM/DD.
No We here needs to follow DD-MM-YYYY becasuse here we are comfortable with that format only.
No disrespect intended, believe me - but that is an incredibly conceited thing to say. There are several "standard formats" depending on where you are and what you are doing. You definteily don't speak for all of us.
@RavensFan wrote:
@Yamaeda wrote:
, just like some people answer 81 when asked how tall they are, since the 1m is rather obvious).
And that is one I've never heard at all because I've never heard heights referred to in "meters".
1.68m tall here, or '68. 🙂
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@littlesphaeroid wrote:
ASCII formatted is axactly what I was referring to. If you must produce an ascii formatted timestamp, there's only one way I can think of to format it that will sort correctly.
As for how Sweden does it, the Göteborgs-Posten uses 26 oktober 2013. Sydsvenskan does it the same way. Which is pretty much what I expected from living in Europe. Like I said, year first is uncommon in daily life, though useful in a programming context. I think programmers need ot be aware of how dates are read and format accordingly.
True, they do. But if writing dates compact, as in bithdates or social security numbers, it's in the 131026-form.
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