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Now you know how the rest of the world feels reading US-style dates.
“The rest of the world” as if everyone uses the same date format lmao
DDMMYYYY and YYYYMMDD users can at least agree the other format is still intuitive
I see then we are using YY YY DD format here. Seems bad.
Want some help? It's intuitive to say month date year out loud. So that's how we write it down too. Today is November 24th 2025 (11/24/25)
Here's another point about the US date system I quite enjoy, the number go in order of lowest maximum integer to greatest maximum integer. The highest the month can go is 12 which is smaller than 31 which is smaller than theoretically infinite. But that's probably not why we do it. I just like that thought.
Nope. In the UK we never say march 6 or something. Sounds wrong
Well God forbid anyone do anything other than the way the British do it. 🙄
Out of responses?
Your (very condescending) point was that "we" say things in a specific way and that should be aligned with how it's written.
No need to lash out at Britain for giving a counterexample in the English speaking world.
Have a good day!
I think the point was that even with your "help", the American date system is still unintuitive to most people using other systems
Also doesn't happen in Dutch, French and German.
Tell me one language where you do say dates like that that isn't the US.
No idea what aus does officially but every single person iv ever talked to there says it like Americans. March the 6th instead of the 6th of March.
Its intuitive to people used to MM DD YY and unintuitive to everyone else.
Today is the 24th of November.
Speaking that date format is usually reserved for holidays and special occasions in the US. I.e. 4th of July. You also see that data format written out on things like R.S.V.P invitations to weddings and formal gatherings. Not much else.
Thats because the US is used to MM DD YY thats why the US talks like MM DD YY thats why its intuitive to you to use MM DD YY thats why ...
There is no inherent "intuitiveness" to it. Its intuitive if you grew up with it and you use it. It is unintuitive if you didn't.
Twenty-four november twenty twenty-five works fine too. (dd mm yyyy)
We don't do a lot of things right in America, but MMDDYYYY is one of them.
Daylight Savings Time really sucks though.
I'm neutral on the Metric System.
The US uses metric for military specs, automotive repair parts, US science specs, medicine/pharmacy, jewelry and most grocery products. The US dollar is also metric.
Heck the US Imperial system is now also metric, technically, as everything is converted from SI measurements.
I'm just kidding, I actually prefer Metric when I'm woodworking. It's much easier to multiply and divide measurements.