It literally makes no sense 

 

I can't stand going on social media and seeing this ridiculous format.

Yes. 

It pisses me off how so many Microsoft products will switch between the two. Excel online will be MM-DD-YYY but then in the app the same spreadsheet is in DD-MM-YYYY. Just stick to one ffs

Calendars are literally organized by month then date, with the year rarely coming up in daily conversation so it's relegated to the back, with the century/millenia only coming up in historical contexts. Considering calendars are how we keep track of dates, the nomenclature for specific days being derived from the way calendars are organized makes perfect sense.

 

The "debate" over unimportant garbage like this is just an excuse for weirdos with hate-boners for the US to yap. There's global imperialism to worry about stfu about calendars you don't care as much as you're pretending to.

Edited January 14, 20251 yr by Sheep

Yes it's disgusting

Yes, as a North American 

does it not make more sense to think of a date in the context of a month first or am i too american for thinking that 

i prefer yyyy-mm-dd

10 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Calendars are literally organized by month then date, with the year rarely coming up in daily conversation so it's relegated to the back, with the century/millenia only coming up in historical contexts. Considering calendars are how we keep track of dates, the nomenclature for specific days being derived from the way calendars are organized makes perfect sense.

 

Calendars are organized by month first because they're meant for looking at big blocks of time, not for verbally communicating specific dates.

 

Just because it's easier to see 'January' in a calendar first, that doesn't mean our spoken or written date format should follow that arbitrary visual order.
 

The whole point of a good format is clarity in communication, not mimicking how you flip pages in a calendar. 

 

Edited January 14, 20251 yr by Space Cowboy

11 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Calendars are literally organized by month then date, with the year rarely coming up in daily conversation so it's relegated to the back, with the century/millenia only coming up in historical contexts. Considering calendars are how we keep track of dates, the nomenclature for specific days being derived from the way calendars are organized makes perfect sense.

 

It's unnatural, an abomination. It has to be year-month-day or vice versa, not the shuffled month-day-year mess

 

Imagine if the time format was mm:ss:HH

Edited January 14, 20251 yr by Illuminati

13 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Calendars are literally organized by month then date, with the year rarely coming up in daily conversation so it's relegated to the back, with the century/millenia only coming up in historical contexts. Considering calendars are how we keep track of dates, the nomenclature for specific days being derived from the way calendars are organized makes perfect sense.

 

The "debate" over unimportant garbage like this is just an excuse for weirdos with hate-boners for the US to yap. There's global imperialism to worry about stfu about calendars you don't care as much as you're pretending to.

You just participated in it  

 

The day that you're in changes every 24 hours while MM/YY remain stagnant in comparison

 

There's a reason you say fourth OF July and not July the 4th  

12 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Calendars are organized by month first because they're meant for looking at big blocks of time, not for verbally communicating specific dates.

Nobody verbally communicates using a specific standard and certainly never 00/00/00, it's for written/printed communication only. Whichever arbitrary xxxx/xxxx/xxxx format you're used to is quicker to parse than natural verbal language is unless you have dyslexia or something. 

 

Any arrangement of xxxx/xxxx/xxxx is justifiable, this is the one a large population of the world has settled on.

 

If I wanted to verbally talk about 12/23/24 I would mention the 23rd of last month. If I wanted to talk about last Tuesday I wouldnt refer to specific dates at all. Holidays, days of week, seasons, the relative position of the date in question to the present all come up in verbal communication long before any calendar-based standard does. 

Edited January 14, 20251 yr by Sheep

4 minutes ago, americanshameless said:

You just participated in it  

 

The day that you're in changes every 24 hours while MM/YY remain stagnant in comparison

 

There's a reason you say fourth OF July and not July the 4th  

We also say January 6th. Verbal communication isn't standardized like print is. Fourth OF July is such an uncommon way to phrase a date that many moronic Americans literally believe the holiday is called Fourth of July and not Independence Day. 

 

I'm always going to participate in these weird biased conversations because otherwise they're a circle-jerk.

Edited January 14, 20251 yr by Sheep

It's just numbers and slashes?!?! 

No, who the **** says 8th of July 2025? 

Yes

It is annoying. It's only when I see the middle number is higher than 12 that I realise it must be using the American date format and I then have to consciously convert what the date referred to actually is.

Yes.

No, it's valid

Gringos, gringos... 

Yes

37 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Calendars are literally organized by month then date, with the year rarely coming up in daily conversation so it's relegated to the back, with the century/millenia only coming up in historical contexts. Considering calendars are how we keep track of dates, the nomenclature for specific days being derived from the way calendars are organized makes perfect sense.

 

The "debate" over unimportant garbage like this is just an excuse for weirdos with hate-boners for the US to yap. There's global imperialism to worry about stfu about calendars you don't care as much as you're pretending to.

oh wow you spilled here 

yes

Yes. DD/MM/YYYY outsold, I fear.