2020-04-03 is the year 2020. month 4, day 3. Big endian, like we do everything else human readable. The advantage of ISO8601 is that is big endian, not something mixed and distinctive. As a result it sorts correctly and you can add so many digits as you need precision while keeping the same format. ISO8061 is by far the best format for timestamps that still uses years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds.
I would also use the Unix time, use ks, Ms, and Gs to talk about time and forget about years, days, hours and minutes. That would be very straight forward, but that is not practical.
I am not sure that you are serious?? If you had said base 16 or hexadecimal I would think that sounds reasonable. UPDATE I found and followed your link. I still have my doubts about 12 and 60. Most of us have 10 fingers, and hexadecimal is cool.
I was unfamiliar with ISO8601 so looked it up. I think the inconsistency there is that it is somewhat logical so does not match much of anything else.
Having seen something as a standard in the US does not make it automatically a standard for the row and shouldn’t once we know its illogical.
Regarding the 12/24hr clock, a 10hr day would manifest the stupidity of the 12am/pm confusion. Taking your proposal a 25hr day or even a 100 timeunits/something would be more appropriate
Why is that? I don’t seriously think that the world would ever change, but if we got started with 10 hours per day, I think it could have been OK. A TV show might last 0.25 hour = 25 minutes or 0.5 hour = 50 minutes or (??). What if we had 13 fingers on each hand?
According to your link, this is more serious than I thought. But I think the world is too locked into 24 hours per day.
I never really cared for it much when it came out, and it always felt like it was a system thought up my marketers selling watches, not scientists and engineers using time as a metric. But it’s the most popularized decimalized time keeping system that I could think of. (Or I could just be showing my age…)
PS. Note I didn’t say “popular”, rather “popularized” as it had a major watch manufacturer trying to push it when Swatch watches were hot. It was (as most fads) a flash in the pan effort.
