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Very hard actually. For me it takes an effort to understand US dates. On the other hand DMY and YMD feel completely natural.
by kyriakos 11y ago
Very hard actually. For me it takes an effort to understand US dates. On the other hand DMY and YMD feel completely natural.
- bcatanzaro 11y agoBlame the English language. "September 14th, 2014" is easier to say than "the 14th of September, 2014". The American style date reflects the English language, which is why it feels more natural to many of us native speakers.
- stordoff 11y ago"14th of September" would be the more common spoken form in the UK, and certainly sounds more natural to me.
- mattlondon 11y agoIn the UK "September 14th 2016" sounds totally unnatural and entirely weird. If you said it at school, the teachers would correct you. The "14th of September 2016" form is what 95% of English people would default to I reckon. Even Shakespeare used this form: "beware the ides of March" and not "beware the March ides" Of course no one would say "2016 September 14th" but hey that is another discussoon.
- lysp 11y agoAustralian here, "14th of September" sounds natural and would be what was taught and used here in general conversation.
- chrisan 11y agoYMD will feel natural to any programmer so that doesn't count, programmers like order :) How do you verbally tell someone the date in conversation? September 14th 2014 or 14th of September 2014 or simply 14 September 2014? Being in the US, the latter two feel long or awkward for me. Writing the date how we say it makes "sense" so I'm guessing outside the US dates are spoken differently?