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minus-square@ThistlewicklinkEnglish7•5 days agoLots 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’.
minus-squareVictorlinkfedilink2•5 days ago sometimes 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.
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.