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> Europeans often write DD/MM in other contexts Correction: Every country except the US (not counting the ones that use YYYY/DD/MM, such as Japan).

• lifthrasiir 4y ago
  > Every country except the US (not counting the ones that use YYYY/DD/MM, such as Japan). What? Japanese dates are always year-month-day, with slightly different separators. More generally the date notation tends to strongly reflect how it is spoken (e.g. "1st January 2023" becomes "1/1/2023") and there are enough countries where you never put day before month.
  • selcuka 4y ago
    > Japanese dates are always year-month-day Ugh, of course. That's a typo. > the date notation tends to strongly reflect how it is spoken Why does it differ between English speaking countries, then?
    • lifthrasiir 4y ago
      > Why does it differ between English speaking countries, then? Because they speak differently? I would expect "November 17, 2022" spoken as "November seventeenth, twenty twenty-two" vs. "17 Nov 2022" as "seventeenth of November, twenty twenty-two". Wikipedia [1] does say that the latter DMY form recently arose possibly in order to resolve ambiguities and the spoken form is less common, but I expect it to be more frequently spoken after enough years of usage. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_States#Date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_...