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I'm not american, but they always seem to do month.day.year for some bizarre reason
by dingledork69 3y ago
I'm not american, but they always seem to do month.day.year for some bizarre reason
- taf2 3y agoi'm aMerican and I always use year-month-day
- synalx 3y agoIt's because we write the numerals in the same order as the longer form: May 10th, 2023 becomes 5/10/23.
- mijoharas 3y agoNot American, and maybe it's a cultural difference but in England it's much more common to say "the 10th of May". Then again, we write our dates in a more sensible manner. I suppose it's time to link to the old sapir whorf hypothesis[0] to explain the difference. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
- joshmanders 3y ago> Then again, we write our dates in a more sensible manner. yawn Yeah we write our dates in a more sensible manner too. And also we drive on the correct side of the road and imperial units of measurement are superior.
- HNDen21 3y agoI have been in the US for 30 years but metric is way better... all that nanometer stuff in your computer is metric not imperial as well for example a 10cm cube filled with water weighs 1 kilo and is 1 liter, boils at 100 degrees. In the US you deal with cups pints, quarts, gallons... and you can't even convert easily between dry and liquid stuff I do agree that steering wheels should be on the left :-)
- the-dude 3y ago> all that nanometer stuff in your computer is metric not imperial as well Electronics is full of imperial standards.
- kordlessagain 3y agoDecimals proceed in order of refinement to smaller increments. Years are long, months are collections of days, and days are collections of hours, and so forth. By that logic, all formatted dates should follow a progression of precision. This is, in fact, a standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
- mijoharas 3y agoAlso agreed, and what i personally use.
- miroljub 3y agoI thought the Americans use MM/dd/YY. As soon as I see a dot "." instead of "/" I assume a "normal" day-month order.
- dingledork69 3y agoI wouldn't expect them to be that precise, especially when they misspell their client's name as OPENAL
- phpisthebest 3y agoI use MM.DD.YY just to confuse people :)
- reaperducer 3y agoI'm not american, but they always seem to do month.day.year for some bizarre reason It's one of those things that America inherited from England, and then when England changed its method, the Americans saw no need to change because it wasn't part of England anymore.† If you go into antiques stores in England, you will find that with items that are engraved, the older it is, the more likely it will have the now-American date format. There was an item on Antiques Roadshow a couple of months ago that was a gift from Queen Victoria to someone that had an engraving that included the American date format. † This is true for a surprising number of minor differences between America and England. In life, it's often better to understand the history of things, rather than just ignorantly write off a group of people as bizarre.
- flangola7 3y agoI think that's because that's how the full date is spoken. It's "September Eleventh" not "Eleventh of September". If someone said "My birthday is twenty-seventh of November" I would wonder if they're a synth.
- reitanuki 3y agoBut outside US, '11th of September' IS how it's said
- dyingkneepad 3y agoI'm American (South American, to be more precise) and we do DD/MM/YYYY around here.