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It has flaws but it’s not “insane” or entirely illogical, it’s very clearly based on the way dates are spoken and written in English, ex. “Today is July 23rd, 2
by MattRix 5y ago
It has flaws but it’s not “insane” or entirely illogical, it’s very clearly based on the way dates are spoken and written in English, ex. “Today is July 23rd, 2021”.
- speedgoose 5y agoIt's not insane, but it's not very logical. As a non native speaker, I prefer to say "Today is the 23rd of July in 2021" which is perhaps not valid English.
- Quarrelsome 5y agoimagine if 202 meant two hundred and twenty. Its insane.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoThe reasoning is clear as day. However, even the English themselves do not use this broken format: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country The US always seem to resist sensible things when it comes to units and formats: it is a mystery to me why they are so attached to imperial units, when the rest of the world sans Liberia and Myanmar are using metric units (and Myanmar planned to leave this shameful club before the recent coup).
- MattRix 5y agoI should have clarified that it is how dates are pronounced in American English. British people will say “it’s the 21st of July, 2021”. I don’t think the US resisting things is so mysterious. The US is a large country that largely defines its own culture (and exports that culture to the world). The average american isn’t going to switch systems unless they have a VERY good reason to. For the fields where it matters (ex. the sciences) they’ve largely already switched.