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minus-squareLordTrychon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 hours agoMaybe it’s just too late and I’m too tired… but how is this DESC?
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 hours agoIt has ORDER BY Hour DESC, results placed anticlockwise?
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 hours agoBut… why would you place them anticlockwise when the hands move in a clockwise direction
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 hours agoWhy would it have them in descending order in the first place? Nothing of this makes sense!
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 hours agoProbably to make them appear right in clockwise order! Sometimes two wrongs make a right. Except when lexical ordering is used.
minus-squareCarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 hours agoIsn’t the word counter-clockwise?
minus-squareporous_grey_matter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 hours agoIt’s an American/British English difference
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 hours agoLiterally never said that in my life?
minus-squareHelloRoot@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 hours agoYou can learn something new every day.
Maybe it’s just too late and I’m too tired… but how is this DESC?
It has ORDER BY Hour DESC, results placed anticlockwise?
But… why would you place them anticlockwise when the hands move in a clockwise direction
Why would it have them in descending order in the first place? Nothing of this makes sense!
Probably to make them appear right in clockwise order! Sometimes two wrongs make a right. Except when lexical ordering is used.
Isn’t the word counter-clockwise?
Widdershins.
It’s an American/British English difference
Literally never said that in my life?
You can learn something new every day.