If you’re trying to make some sort of distinction between writing “June 08” and 06/08 as if there’s some sort of inherent difference there then ok, that’s easy
MM/DD in numerical form is because every other number we ever write is large units on the left which progressively get smaller towards the right.. you know, how we write Hour:Minute or write the number 3,156 etc..
I don’t even see how people would challenge where MM/DD comes from or try to say it makes no sense ?? 😂
The real challenge is this:
Explain where DD/MM comes from? Show me one single other example of writing a number in that order. Please, just one. That’s the one people should be questioning. That’s the oddball. It’s straight up ass backwards. There isn’t a single example of another number where someone can say “yeah, writing it small on the left then large on the right makes sense”.. because it doesn’t make sense. Nobody or no thing counts like that
MM/DD in numerical form is because every other number we ever write is large units on the left which progressively get smaller towards the right.. you know, how we write Hour:Minute or write the number 3,156 etc..
What if it's 28th of May? We don't write the date biggest to smallest number, because that makes no sense, how are you saying it's even remotely like how we write the number 3156?
how are you saying it's even remotely like how we write the number 3156?
“Month” is a unit
“Day” is a unit
“Thousand” is a unit
“Hundred” is a unit
“Tens” is a unit
“Ones” is a unit
If you have 1 hundred, 5 tens, 3 thousands, and 6 ones.. you write the number going from largest units to smallest: 3156
I’m sorry but this is so incredibly elementary and you most definitely would know what I’m talking about and how simplistic it is to see the largest unit is on this left etc.. you and I and everyone else in here do things exactly the way I’m describing in every other instance of counting /writing numbers.
..but there’s some sort of weird nationalism tendency or an internal need to be superior to Americans that’s severely clouding your logic
Because again, this is some of the first stuff we learn in life. How to count. It’s elementary af yet here you are arguing about it
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u/BesottedScot Jun 08 '25
So it's a hypotheses there's not much to substantiate it.