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[–] 18 points 4 months ago (23 children)

The date is day/month/year standard

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  • [+] -12 points 4 months ago (22 children)

    why

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (16 children)

    Because not everybody is American. Also because it makes way more sense

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  • [+] -9 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    it doesnt make sense at all really

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

    How in the world does it make sense to start with the middle unit, move to the small, then the big? You start at one end and move to the other, either D/M/Y or Y/M/D. Set aside your gut reaction because that's what you grew up with and it's pretty obvious.

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  • [+] -7 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    what makes it the middle unit

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    You can't figure out how month is the middle unit of precision between year and day?

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  • [–] -5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    you say that like its not arbituary. if i say "it happened on january" you know already roughly when this takes place. if i say "it happened on the 7th" okay 7th what? what are you saying?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The information is implicit in every case, that it happened on the most recent instance of that date.

    It's 11/7/26 today.

    7th? Happened 4 days ago. January? Happened 6 months ago. 90s? Happened 30 years ago.

    You're being intentionally obtuse. Nobody is claiming confusion. (It's also somewhat moving the goalposts, but we'll ignore that). Unless it's a written article, in which case the month will be outdated in a year anyway, and it's bad practice to not specify the full date.

    you say that like its not arbituary.

    How is going from small -> big or big -> small somehow more arbitrary than starting in the middle of that scale?

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    its not the middle, ive already clarified that

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    What scale are you using that the month isn't on between the day and the year?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Because most of the world isn't America.

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  • [–] -5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    i dont see how that comes into equation

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    It's only the US that starts dates with the month.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    not true, plenty of others as well. canada uses all 3 for example

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Canada officially uses YY-MM-DD, and while MM-DD-YY is used due to American influence, it's discouraged due to potential confusion unless you're writing out the month. No other country besides the US anywhere worldwide uses MM-DD as a primary standard.

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