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darvocet , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?

For organization?

kite , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?

Probably forgot to check the default for sort order. I’ve done that before.

DM_Gold , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?
@DM_Gold@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Instead of asking “why?” consider asking “why not?”

InverseParallax ,

Imagine being able to autocomplete months.

flamingarms ,

You’re right, that is an easier question to answer!

parpol , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?

They probably store the months as strings rather than integers or enums with string representations/localizations

Perry , (edited ) to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?
@Perry@kbin.social avatar

They are probably reusing a component that happens to sort its entries alphabetically, since that is most commonly the expected behaviour. If the form is configured in a CMS, whoever built it might not even know it's happening and has entered the data properly, but it gets resorted in the presentation layer. It's also not impossible that the behaviour of the component has changed at some point and this particular case didn't have test coverage or wasn't actually part of the specification.

lowleveldata , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?

I once got a user requirement that specifically say all drop down lists must be sorted alphabetically

tiredofsametab ,

eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two .... ew

lugal ,

8, 5, 4, 9, 1, 7, 6, 10, 3, 2

AnalogyAddict , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?

Speaking as a UX designer, probably because some "product manager" decided it was too expensive to override the auto- sort that was applied before the designer was brought in to "pretty things up."

There is no tone of bitterness in my comment, honestly there isn't.

Blamemeta ,

Im sorry. Im a front end dev, i wish i could make everything pretty, but theres just too many meetings and too much process for everything to get much done.

AnalogyAddict ,

Haha! Exactly! I do some coding, too, but I can't think like a UXer and a dev at the same time.

It's the "making it pretty" part that makes me bitter. That is the LEAST part of what we do.

It's like asking an architect to come in and fix the building after it's already mostly built. Bad PMs insist on seeing us like interior decorators, but we are primarily architects.

Lifter ,

They don’t want to pay architect salary to do decorating work and I fully agree. Problem is that stuff like this are often overlooked until someone makes a fuss about it, costing PR. The other 90 % of the overlooked stuff is never found though so it’s still a good decision to skip stuff like this.

AnalogyAddict ,

I'd believe that, if they weren't already paying the architect salary to have us do interior design. They hire us, then shackle us.

VirtualAlias ,

Yeah, I was going to say they just left a default alphabetical sort to their global droplist component and called it a day. Probably works fine in most contexts, but this one - not so much.

QuaternionsRock ,

Or shitty SQL.

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">SELECT MAX(day_of_month), month
</span><span style="color:#323232;">FROM why_does_this_table_exist
</span><span style="color:#323232;">GROUP BY month
</span>
fubo , to programmerhumor in Arcane overflow

At this point Bob Howard shows up from another ficton and hoses the chalk circle down with dilute sulfuric acid.

coldhotman , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?
@coldhotman@nrsk.no avatar

But WHY?

So they’re in alphabetical order.

rms1990 , to programmerhumor in Programming Languages

And I’m the smalltalk soldier in my rainbow uni 🌈

Grandwolf319 , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?

Obviously it’s a an act of protest so the months are officially remade to be alphabetically ordered.

subway ,

Can’t we just call them month 1 to month 12 like CJK languages do?

Grandwolf319 ,

No, it has to be month 0 to 11.

lugal ,

But in alphabetical order: 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

feck_it ,

This is not even in alphabetical order, three couldn’t be before the four.

lugal ,

Computers sometimes sort in this logic: “1” is the first digit so everything that starts with “1” comes first. Alphabetical in this sense, not the names of the numbers written out as done in another comment under this post.

President_Pyrus ,
@President_Pyrus@feddit.dk avatar

Which is why ISO 8601 is superior.

feck_it ,

Oh, why i didn’t consider that, my education background didn’t help i guess, thank you.

max_adam , to programmerhumor in Arcane overflow

The code is so old that their developers are already dead.

jimmyjoners , to cat in Angery

I’d be pissed too. Watermelons are all show no go. Truly an f tier fruit.

Pons_Aelius ,

The only way to experience watermelon is growing your own. Which, I know, is impossible for most people.

Store watermelons are picked a bit green and ripen on route.

When allowed to ripen on the vine, the sugar content keeps rising and the melon is a different level of sweetness.

The second-best option is buying direct from a local farmer. Again, not available to many.

claytempleton , to cat in Angery

Deleted scene from Hausu

99nights , to programmerhumor in Alphabetically sorted months. But WHY?

My birthday still lands in the middle of the year. Poor me

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