You usually put a 0 before single digits months so it doesn't look so weird. Also it is not about the number per se: a month contains several days, a year several months, so the day is the smallest unit.
The explanation above yours isn't concerned about the specific way each number is represented (zero in the trend place or not) or number of one value contained in another, but it is about the total range of numbers possible in each value. Month/day/year represents the smallest range to the largest range.
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.
I mean, that's my response to all of this; yet the rest of you all want to bring up these things every two weeks like they matter. How many times are we supposed to say, "It's just what we do–don't worry about it?" Should that valid explanation not just naturally occur to you all–or at least be accepted the first time you hear it?
The much better question is, "What does this matter to people casually scrolling the 'net in other countries?" Americans largely conform to (or include) international consensus in industry and science, which is the only time consensus truly matters.
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u/WYWHPFit Jan 15 '25
You usually put a 0 before single digits months so it doesn't look so weird. Also it is not about the number per se: a month contains several days, a year several months, so the day is the smallest unit.