• nesc@lemmy.cafe
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    5 days ago

    This pyramid visualisation doesn’t work for me, unless you read time starting with seconds.

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      5 days ago

      A pyramid is built bottom to top, not top to bottom. That’s also one of the strengths of the ISO format. You can add/remove layers for arbitrary granularity and still have a valid date.

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, but people read top to bottom. The best way to do it would be to have upside down pyramids. With the biggest blocks at the top representing the biggest unit of time (YYYY) and the smallest blocks at the bottom representing seconds & smaller.