Date Formats Explained as Pyramids

Japanese logic YY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS Sec. Minute Hour Day Month Year American "logic" MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS Sec. Minute Hour Year Day Month European "logic" DD/MM/YY HH:MM:SS Sec. Minute Hour Year Month Day F**k it. UNIX timestamp. Seconds since midnight 1970-01-01 UTC (excluding leap seconds)

Four colorful pyramids compare Japanese, American, and European date formats before abandoning the hierarchy for a UNIX timestamp. The joke mocks inconsistent date conventions and the overly technical simplicity of measuring time as seconds since midnight on January 1, 1970.

• @dev_meme / 4430 2022-06-08