Because he didn’t know about ISO8601. The only correct date format, especially in Canada.

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    1 month ago

    Are computers the most important thing?

    Usually when I read a date I hardly care about year, because most events I read about are within a year

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      1 month ago

      Leaving aside the problem that you are choosing a date system depending on who is using the dating system and for what purpose, under that condition the most logical would be MM/DD/YYYY, which is truly terrible, so I’m going to politely ignore your argument.

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        1 month ago

        Leaving aside the problem that you are choosing a date system depending on who is using the dating system

        I’m choosing one for humans, that’d seem to be the group that uses date systems most. Picking a new datesystem for each purpose would be insane, but also exactly what’s happening in computer systems.

        under that condition the most logical would be MM/DD/YYYY, which is truly terrible, so I’m going to politely ignore your argument.

        I fail to see that conclusion? Why would that be the most logical?

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          15 days ago

          So the first point was that depending on your files/archives and how you access it, year or month or day may be more relevant to the user, which is why I was saying it’s dependent on the user, so I don’t agree that a human centric solution is always going to say the year is less relevant.

          And then if we are going to prioritize organizing the numbers in such a way as to save the eyes a millisecond of time, for standard usage month would be the orienting date since you need to make sure you are looking at today’s month, and then day would be the next necessary date, and then you’d still need the year there, so you’d end up with Month Day Year. Putting Day first would be just as wrong as putting year first because it is irrelevant until you establish the month, it’s too granular.