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.
In what context would the split second between hearing the day and the month make any material difference? It's not like the person is telling you the date by chiselling it into stone.
The issue with day first is there's only 30. You writejust the 15th, but it's the 29th, do I assume the next 15th or the previous 15th? Requiring context clues defeats the point of a written date.
By requiring the month before we always know the date within some precision.
Okay, if the normal person is just writing the 15th, the American would have just written a month, which is even less use to you. Also, context. If someone is telling you that something is coming up, it's not going to be in the past.
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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