thiemowmde added a comment.
Words like "millennium", "million" and "billion" tend to be confusing
("billion" actually does have two meanings, right?) and are, in my opinion, not
useful for what we are discussing here.
I'm not sure what the definition of "significant" digits should be for what we
are discussing here. "1 Million BC" and "1 after Christ" both have 1
significant digit but different precisions. Turning the precision into
significant digits only makes sense with padding, which is exactly what I did.
There is nothing wrong with that.
The problem with an inversed order is that this does not work:
Ye0 = 9
Ye0M = 10
Ye0MD = 11
Ye0MDH = 12
Ye0MDHM = 13
Ye0MDHMS = 14
Ye1 = 8
Ye2 = 7
Ye3 = 6
Ye4 = 5
Ye5 = 4
Ye6 = 3
Ye7 = 2
Ye8 = 1
Ye9 = 0
Calculating fractions of a year or turning all these different precisions into
seconds is not going to work because this would depend on the month and if it's
a leap year, wouldn't it?
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