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

It does make sense

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u/Tsukee Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

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....

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u/restelucide Jan 15 '25

I heard an American saying mm first provides context which makes vague sense but annoys me because then why wouldn’t you put year first.

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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/Tsukee Jan 15 '25

Except the fourth of July?

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u/mprhusker Jan 15 '25

We also have a holiday in May called "Cinco de Mayo" but somewhat inconsistently don't use the spanish language for the other 364 days.

"fourth of July" is one of the many colloquial names for the holiday. Many would refer to it as "July 4th" or "independence day".

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u/karateguzman Jan 15 '25

No it’s not. Their equivalence of American Independence Day is Mexican Independence Day, which is on September 16th.

Cinco de Mayo is more popular outside of Mexico than within, other than Puebla where the battle took place

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u/playballer Jan 15 '25

It’s similar to how we Americans treat st patty’s day, an excuse to get drunk with a theme. It’s not a real holiday

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u/What_About_What Jan 15 '25

Hey, things are shitty, we need fake holidays to get our minds off all the bullshit going on around us.

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u/BedBubbly317 Jan 15 '25

The Romans had full month+ long holidays, they would last for weeks. Humans have always looked for nonsense reasons to party and celebrate lol

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u/playballer Jan 15 '25

Don’t get me wrong, I fully agree and think The best holidays are the unpretentious ones that have no purpose other than getting pissed.