TheRealDude19047
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Dec 3, 2023 4:29 PM
TheRealDude19047
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Weronoop
I'll just leave this here... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
kazenokize
lol no it won't
SimplyWalkedIntoMordorAndBroughtPizza
not all countries do the MM.DD.YY dates, which look quite confusing tbh
TotallyNotTheNSAGuys
311223 for me
SinfulDeviant
The correct format 👍
FrozenSTi
day/month/year....it's a natural progression of time, why is it so hard for people to understand....
CatChef
It's because we say it December 31st, 2023. Not 31st of December 2023
Deleteded
Because the standard in USA is month/day/year. Always threw me off when I was learning it, I still don't know why it's that way, but that's how it works here.
PostalHeathen
Because the short form is an abbreviation of long form dates. In the US, the last day of the year is written in long form as December 31, 2023. When you abbreviate that to short form, you get 12/31/23. In Europe, that long form date would be written as 31 December 2023, so in short form it'd be abbreviated as 31/12/23. Neither one is right or wrong, the other is just different than you're used to.
Deleteded
Well thanks for clearing that up, I did not know that.
PostalHeathen
As to why, it's probably because things got standardized before easy international communication was a thing, so it didn't matter so long as everyone's on the same page. Note that the military formats dates as dd MMMM yyyy and uses the metric system because clarity and coordination with others is important enough to do things differently than they're done by civilians.
RFC55
Nice explanation but Murcia is wrong
PostalHeathen
Why, does Murcia do something different?