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I think its just convention, in essence thats the way it started so it stayed that way. But as a counter argument to your statement that it would be more intui
by bshep 17y ago
I think its just convention, in essence thats the way it started so it stayed that way.
But as a counter argument to your statement that it would be more intuitive the other way given the way english is read, consider that you want the largest magnitude digit first since it contains more information about the number than the rest of the digits.
- fuzzythinker 17y agoWith that reasoning, the way we write dates should be YY/MM/DD.
- DocSavage 17y agoFor some apps, that would make sense, but most use of dates is scoped within this week, this month, then this year. If you look at your calendar, you are mostly concerned with upcoming events and not next year's. So the Aug 1, 2009 date gets the important information up first, or possibly 1 Aug 2009.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoWe effectively do work that way, when speaking. "Next month, I'll be out of town from the 15th to the 20th," contains a month (and implicit year), followed by the day. You'd be less likely to hear "I'll be out of town from the 15th to the 20th of September this year."
- randallsquared 17y agoIt's really common to hear "I'll be out of town from September 15 to 20 this year", though, and that's the way most (USian) people write out the date, too: Sept 15, 2009.
- nihilocrat 17y agoWe use ISO dates in our company so that neither the US or European employees get confused. It's also how you express dates in Chinese ( 2009 nian 8 yue 1 ri ). It bothers me that we express dates any other way.
- Diakronik 17y agoi.e. the way most of the world writes the date
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoIn India, the dates are written as DD/MM/YY, whereas other people choose to do it differently, which quickly becomes confusing. That's why I always prefer something like <Name of the Month> <Day>, <Year> (i.e, August 2, 2009). I'm also one of the crazy ones who always use a 24 hour clock. IMO, 1730 is much easier to say than 5:30 PM. Also, it's fairly unambiguous when you're dealing with someone on the other side of the globe.