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Comment by Retr0id | Hacker News Reader

I'd be very curious to see a histogram showing which times have the most/least songs written about them.

From:

    curl "https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/assets/songs.csv" | awk -F ',' '{print $1}'|uniq -c|sort -n

BTW if you want the full histogram use this:

    curl "https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/assets/songs.csv" | awk -F ',' '{print $1}'|uniq -c|sort -n |awk '{printf("%5s: %s\n", $2, sprintf("%0" $1 "s", ""));}'

There’s a couple good bash libraries for that too: https://github.com/glamp/bashplotlib

There’s a better one google is failing me on

I'm gonna go out on a limb and speculate that 4:20 is at the top of the list. At least among times that don't end in :00 or :30.

Surprisingly it's number 3. Beat by 5:00 and 3:33. I have no idea what the significance of those are. I mean I guess 5:00 is the traditional start of evening, but no idea what's special about 3:33.

One of the oldest questions on the SciFi stackexchange, trying to find a story where twice a day at 3:33 the numbers on a clock would come to life: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2937/story-where-t...

Though it was misremembered and it was actually 5, not 3, 5:55 is also near the top of this list.

If your track is already three-and-a-half-ish minutes long maybe the mastering engineer says "okay let's add a couple seconds at the end to make it exactly 3:33 for fun"

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