• Provoked Gamer@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    DD/MM/YY and YY/MM/DD are the only acceptable ones IMO. Throwing a DD in between YY and MM is just weird since days move by faster so they should be at one of the ends and since YY moves the slowest it should be on the other end.

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      1 year ago

      The only reason they place month as first is because it is fits how dates are read in English, but that’s not a good reason to keep that format.

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        1 year ago

        It’s how it is read in English (simplified) aka american english. Brittish english doesn’t do this nonsense, the talk in the correct format (first of january etc.).

        (I’m sorry if i made some mistakes, english is my second language)

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      I grew up with DD.MM.YYYY. But I think, MM/DD makes sense in everyday usage. You don’t often need to specify dates with year accuracy. “Jane’s prom is on 7th September” – it’s obvious which year is meant. Then it’s sensible to start with the larger unit, MM, instead of DD.

      Even in writing you see that the year is always given like an afterthought: “7th September**,** 2023“.