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[–] LordTrychon@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Maybe it's just too late and I'm too tired... but how is this DESC?

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It has ORDER BY Hour DESC, results placed anticlockwise?

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But... why would you place them anticlockwise when the hands move in a clockwise direction

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would it have them in descending order in the first place? Nothing of this makes sense!

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Probably to make them appear right in clockwise order! Sometimes two wrongs make a right. Except when lexical ordering is used.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Isn't the word counter-clockwise?

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's an American/British English difference

[–] Klear@quokk.au 4 points 2 months ago
[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Literally never said that in my life?

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 3 points 2 months ago

You can learn something new every day.

[–] MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It's either extremely successful ragebait, or op thinks "desc" means "sort as a string"