Wkd is not a realistic option as many businesses trade on weekend days.
Month, day, year is the American practice they adopted to be
different to Britain after they left and is mathematically illogical.
Even the mathematically more sensible day, month, year is more
orderly yet still the reverse of millions, thousands, hundreds, tens,
units and therefore unsuitable for sorting !
If one wishes to make a mathematically sensible system it would be
YYYY MM DD HH mm ss ,DAYname
YYYY MM DD HH mm ss would be sortable !!
Searching the issues database (on an unrelated problem) prompted a
question about the timestamp format:
- "DDD MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy"
(or "WkD MMM dd HH:mm:ss yyyy") -
that is,
Weekday (3 characters)
Month (3 characters)
Day-of-month (2 digits)
Time(Hours (24-hour, 2 digits): minutes (2 digits): seconds (2 digits))
Year (4 digits)
The lack of an overall ordering principle [corresponding to, say,
the most- to least-signficant principle of the "Time" component]
often forces me to think for an extra second in comparing
timestamps. I suspect I am not alone in that reaction, which prompts
a question: Can anyone explain the merit of that format? That is,
what is its functional motivation?
John
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