> Because when we say "4th of July" it's not being said in the context of a date, it's an event. Eh, that's not very compelling. You have a specific event for

> Because when we say "4th of July" it's not being said in the context of a date, it's an event. Eh, that's not very compelling. You have a specific event for which you break your date ordering just because? "It's an event" doesn't explain why the ordering is suddenly not the standard. It looks like a holdover from a prior point in history before there was the current trend of spoken date endianness. Look at "Seventh of March speech" as another example. > Cool. In the US we say August 18th, 2020. So that's why we do MM/DD/YYYY. This isn't actually the case from what I can tell by looking online, both England and the english speaking north Americans used a mixture of MM/DD/YYYY (but only with written out months) and DD/MM/YYYY. Once there was a move toward number-only dates around 1900 England disposed of middle endian dates and the US preserved them. > I really don't understand why people are so hell bent on changing our culture. We do it this way and like it. It's not a big deal. Global communication, US is the only place using this date format, can be mis-parsed for the first 12 days of every month, not even consistent within itself etc. You're defending it with as much gusto as people in other places care. It's a minor annoyance to convert ambiguous dates, that's pretty much it.