How in the world does it make sense to start with the middle unit, move to the small, then the big? You start at one end and move to the other, either D/M/Y or Y/M/D. Set aside your gut reaction because that’s what you grew up with and it’s pretty obvious.
you say that like its not arbituary. if i say “it happened on january” you know already roughly when this takes place. if i say “it happened on the 7th” okay 7th what? what are you saying?
The information is implicit in every case, that it happened on the most recent instance of that date.
It’s 11/7/26 today.
7th? Happened 4 days ago.
January? Happened 6 months ago.
90s? Happened 30 years ago.
You’re being intentionally obtuse. Nobody is claiming confusion. (It’s also somewhat moving the goalposts, but we’ll ignore that). Unless it’s a written article, in which case the month will be outdated in a year anyway, and it’s bad practice to not specify the full date.
you say that like its not arbituary.
How is going from small -> big or big -> small somehow more arbitrary than starting in the middle of that scale?
Canada officially uses YY-MM-DD, and while MM-DD-YY is used due to American influence, it’s discouraged due to potential confusion unless you’re writing out the month. No other country besides the US anywhere worldwide uses MM-DD as a primary standard.
The date is day/month/year standard
why
Because not everybody is American. Also because it makes way more sense
Honestly ISO Y/M/D makes more sense rationally, but practically nobody uses that.
it doesnt make sense at all really
How in the world does it make sense to start with the middle unit, move to the small, then the big? You start at one end and move to the other, either D/M/Y or Y/M/D. Set aside your gut reaction because that’s what you grew up with and it’s pretty obvious.
what makes it the middle unit
You can’t figure out how month is the middle unit of precision between year and day?
you say that like its not arbituary. if i say “it happened on january” you know already roughly when this takes place. if i say “it happened on the 7th” okay 7th what? what are you saying?
The information is implicit in every case, that it happened on the most recent instance of that date.
It’s 11/7/26 today.
7th? Happened 4 days ago. January? Happened 6 months ago. 90s? Happened 30 years ago.
You’re being intentionally obtuse. Nobody is claiming confusion. (It’s also somewhat moving the goalposts, but we’ll ignore that). Unless it’s a written article, in which case the month will be outdated in a year anyway, and it’s bad practice to not specify the full date.
How is going from small -> big or big -> small somehow more arbitrary than starting in the middle of that scale?
30 de septiembre del 2026 makes perfect sense to me.
thats great
Because most of the world isn’t America.
i dont see how that comes into equation
It’s only the US that starts dates with the month.
not true, plenty of others as well. canada uses all 3 for example
Canada officially uses YY-MM-DD, and while MM-DD-YY is used due to American influence, it’s discouraged due to potential confusion unless you’re writing out the month. No other country besides the US anywhere worldwide uses MM-DD as a primary standard.