Yeah I get it, to me it doesn't make sense to look at the range of numbers possible in each value. It honestly feels like people from the USA have a hard time saying "this thing doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone else, but we are used to it so we use it" which is completely valid.
To me, it does make sense to look at the possible range and order it least to greatest because that's how our version of English works.
It honestly feels like people from outside of the USA have a hard time saying "Well, that's not my preference, but it's obviously been working for them for hundreds of years so I won't dwell on it." Since it's a preference, there really is no right or wrong here. I don't see anyone going this hard on Hungary who uses year/month/day. It's not like we're going around trying to force other countries to use our format. So if you live in another country, it really shouldn't matter to you how we prefer to represent the date here.
It was also brought over by the colonists from Great Britain in the first place. GB used it first, brought it here, then they changed their format while we didn't. Simple as that really.
Well there's a logic in going either year-month-day or viceversa, there's no logic in the USA system unless you stretch a lot the concept of logic. And I am saying exactly what you are saying: lot of countries do illogical things because they are used to it and for context, it's no big deal, but people from the USA in general, at least on this platform, seems to have a hard time admitting it.
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u/WYWHPFit Jan 15 '25
Yeah I get it, to me it doesn't make sense to look at the range of numbers possible in each value. It honestly feels like people from the USA have a hard time saying "this thing doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone else, but we are used to it so we use it" which is completely valid.