Agent641@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoClock, but its ORDER BY Hour DESClemmy.mlimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down16
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minus-squareLordTrychon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 month agoMaybe it’s just too late and I’m too tired… but how is this DESC?
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 month agoIt has ORDER BY Hour DESC, results placed anticlockwise?
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoBut… why would you place them anticlockwise when the hands move in a clockwise direction
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoWhy would it have them in descending order in the first place? Nothing of this makes sense!
minus-squaretias@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 month 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-up7arrow-down2·1 month agoIsn’t the word counter-clockwise?
minus-squareporous_grey_matter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoIt’s an American/British English difference
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 month agoLiterally never said that in my life?
minus-squareHelloRoot@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoYou can learn something new every day.
minus-squareMajinBlayze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoIt’s either extremely successful ragebait, or op thinks “desc” means “sort as a string”
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?
It’s an American/British English difference
Til
Widdershins.
Literally never said that in my life?
You can learn something new every day.
It’s either extremely successful ragebait, or op thinks “desc” means “sort as a string”