As always, it’s more conversational FOR YOU. You got used to it so it feels natural to you, I have two formats I’m used to just because I speak two different languages and they are perfectly conversational.
Most Germanic languages say “32” as “two-and-thirty”.
Thankfully they did not hire Americans to figure out how to write Arab numerals, else we might have more conventions on how to write “86” than there are languages in Europe.
American format is more conversational. We don’t say “Fifth of April”, we say “April Fifth”.
Lots of places say “fifth of April”
the same way you don’t say “Forth of July”?
Yeah holiday is special but if you are at work and someone asks the day you say July 4th, just the way we learned
You do. In Germany we say „Fünfter April“.
Same in Swedish. “Femte april”
tjugonionde maj!
First of January, eh?
If we don’t just say “Fünfter Vierter”, that is “Fifth Fourth” or 5.4.
It doesn’t matter how you say it, as long as it’s understandable. Same thing goes for writing it down.
Only way to clear any confusion on the dates, is to use single standard which is why iso8601 exists.
Pretty sure you guys say it like that because of the date format. In the UK saying “X of Y” is pretty normal.
Yet your fucking national holiday is the fourth of July, not July the fourth. 🤦♂️
As always, it’s more conversational FOR YOU. You got used to it so it feels natural to you, I have two formats I’m used to just because I speak two different languages and they are perfectly conversational.
Most Germanic languages say “32” as “two-and-thirty”.
Thankfully they did not hire Americans to figure out how to write Arab numerals, else we might have more conventions on how to write “86” than there are languages in Europe.
Lots of places conversationally say ‘April 5th’, but when writing it out in an understandable format, DD/MM/YYYY logically increases in magnitude.
If we used the ‘April 5th’ excuse, then Americans would be writing their times in mm:hh notation because people sometimes say ‘half past 12’.
This is key. MM/DD is how they write it because it’s the most common (in America).
But yeah, having a logical and practical way of writing the dates like the ISO standard would be best.