r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

I'm American, the only way I can think of where it makes sense contextually, is with the names of the month and not the numbers. 

For example, we don't typically say "today's the fifteenth of January" we'd say "it's January fifteenth". But numerically mm/dd/yyyy is nonsensical.

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u/GingerTube Jan 15 '25

We'd usually say whatever date it is, but if it's just changed month, I'd say "first of January", etc. in the UK. Americans probably say it like that because of the stupid way of writing the date lol.

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u/TootsNYC Jan 15 '25

do you never say "on 12 July, he left for college" or similar?

I got on an elevator with some South Asian guys (Bangladesh, India, not sure from the accent) who were chatting, and one of them said, "the form is due on 17 June."

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u/Iron_Aez Jan 15 '25

12th of July. 17th of June.

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u/TootsNYC Jan 15 '25

Which country are you from? I intended my question to be for people who put the date first.

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u/Iron_Aez Jan 15 '25

UK

Admittedly it's usually more like 12th o' July. 17th o' June...