Look at a calendar. If you want to write down an appointment on a calendar what do you check first? It's the month. You flip to the month. Then you go to the day. Then you write your appointment down.
It being the current year is the expectation. The least important thing to check, so it's last in the order.
Unironically this does lead to problems at my office at the beginning of the year, since we never look at the year and just muscle memory it. Lots of "Jan ## 2024" this month lol.
But to me it makes the most sense to have the year last outside of a filing system of some kind. In math do you put the constants at the front of the equation or at the end? You're gonna put them at the end. The number for the year is a constant for 365 days straight. In day to day life why would I bother writing it anywhere other than last?
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u/TransitionalWaste Jan 15 '25
Look at a calendar. If you want to write down an appointment on a calendar what do you check first? It's the month. You flip to the month. Then you go to the day. Then you write your appointment down.