• DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't get why people hate MM-DD-YYYY. If you ask someone what day it is, they'd say "December 13, 2020". You use MM-DD-YYYY or MM-DD if the year is obvious in conversation, why not in writing too? I feel like Americans got this one right by accident. If you want to shit on American measurement standards just plug the metric system. But display dates make sense imo.

    • MonteCristo [he/him,any]
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      4 years ago

      That’s how you say it in English. In French it would be “le treize décembre 2020.” I assume most other Latin languages are the same.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah in Greek it is "13 Δεκεμβρίου 2020", the analogue of which would be "13th of December 2020", but there is no natural way to say it in a MM/DD format.

    • LibsEatPoop2 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      but...by that logic isn't the month also kinda obvious in most circumstances? Like, if someone asks you what day it is, what is a more useful answer - "December" or "13th". Like, they get all the knowledge they need from the 13th.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago
      1. 13th of December 2020
      2. Neat ascending order
      3. In many languages even in speech the only natural way to say it is with the date first, month second, year third.