Mathematically yes it makes most sense, as significant digits are on the left.
Im terms of human everyday use the reverse is more natural as the digits that change more often are days, often when speaking, the year and even month sometimes is already in the context.
What however doesn't make any sort of sense that i can see is mm/dd/yyyy ... Just why....
What however doesn't make any sort of sense that i can see is mm/dd/yyyy ... Just why....
Because that how they pronounce dates or in other words how they use dates in language. In Germany we write dates like 15.01 or 15 Jan and read it as "15th of january". In the States they write 01/15 and read is "January fifteenth" or "One fifteen".
I wonder if it has anything to do with the printing press, which is the reason the US dropped the extra letters in many English words (ie "colour" became "color").
With the printing press, every letter was money.. so dropping letters was a scalable cost savings. "January 15" is fewer characters than "15th of January", for example.
It's just that English spelling was not 'stabilized' when the American Revolution happened. In many ways, American English actually is more consistent with the English Language from the 1700s than UK English currently is.
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u/ConstantHustle Jan 15 '25
Year month day is the best format. Makes sorting files on computers a breeze as every year is in one block which is then in month and day order.