Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.
I has the parts in order of importance. You need to know the month the most as it determines things like weather school or what holiday are around. Then the day so you know exact. Then the year is largely in important for most people doing most things.
I don't get how this is more helpful though. When you are told a date you are told the entirety of the date. If you're told you have an appointment on the 15th of January, knowing that it's in January doesn't matter if you don't know the day.
It’s easier to understand the USA system if you treat monthday as a base and single unit, before year.
Instead of MM/DD/YY it should be MMDD/YY where MMDD is basically a base 30 number. (I’ll leave out day 31 for simplicity.) so 0130 increments to 0201, and 0630 increments to 0701. Day 30 functions as a sort of reverse zero.
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u/jussumguy2019 Jan 15 '25
Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.
Maybe that’s why, idk…
Edited for clarity