dave_rhino
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Why do Americans write dates Month/day/year instead of Day/Month/Year?
It's so fucking stupid, makes no sense at all.
It's so fucking stupid, makes no sense at all.
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Smittmaestro
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Makes sense to me dave. 
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dave_rhino
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No it doesn't though.
It supposed to go in an order, small to big. Like seconds, minutes hours...
Days, months, years.
Like it's the 17th today, 17th day of the 9th month, the 17 goes into the 9... 17/9
9/17? What the fuck? What possible reason does anyone have for putting it the wrong way round?
It supposed to go in an order, small to big. Like seconds, minutes hours...
Days, months, years.
Like it's the 17th today, 17th day of the 9th month, the 17 goes into the 9... 17/9
9/17? What the fuck? What possible reason does anyone have for putting it the wrong way round?
big to small would mean the year would go first. thats weird.
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dave_rhino
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Sorry sorry my bad, I mean't small to big.
And if it makes so much sense, how come only 5 countries do it that way?
Yeah, and what is up with you English not saying "the" before "hospital"? What's up with that? :hi: :wave:
all i can think of its the same thing as the metric system. we dont use it. americans have always been rebels. we were founded on rebellion.
If I had to guess I think it's probably has something to do with the way we say the date out loud. "September 17th" is shorter and sounds better than saying "The 17th of September" for a lot of people. So having the month go first on the month/day/year format sounds more like how a lot of people would verbally say it. Plus when some people think of a day in the past or one that is upcoming I think they think of the month the day is in first before they think of the day unless they are both in the same month.
It made me a little sad that my original random statement thread got deleted..
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