👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully specific-sounding monstrosity of a date and time designation – 2010–07–26þ½—. I feel like I just deciphered an alien communiqué, frankly.
Basically, 2010_07.26.15.00.01 (let's standardise that a little, because honestly who actually writes this without a systems freak out?) is… nothing until you realise what it probably means. It’s an ISO 8601 timestamp of the slightly-less-than-convincing kind. Now, ISO 8601 itself is fancy – that's the really official standard for dates and times. You basically want to be able to unambiguously say, "Hey! That happened on this exact point in whatever dimension we happen to exist in!" Instead of just “yesterday at roughly around some point during the day when I was probably eating a sandwich. The part that’s weird here? The 2010. 07. 06... is, yep, the year, month and day. The rest—þ½—. It's trying to encode something extra . You see this with stuff like version numbers in software or, let's be brutally honest, a desperate attempt by a coder who was very late for his deadline and just wanted some indication of when the thing happened
