What Americans are calling people idiots for saying (day) of (month)? We say it both ways all the time. 4th of July, July 4th… it’s not a complicated thing.
That is a weird one: every other date is “normal” order but for some reason this is an exception. Also weird that we call it with backward date more often than its actual holiday name
- July 4 is a normal date
- Independency Day is the name of the holiday
- so why do we usually refer to it as “Fourth of July”
We don’t say July 4 because that’s a normal date, we don’t say Independence Day because there are so many of those on different days for different countries.
It’s like saying USAians don’t have a sense of humour. Some USAians are MAGAt knob heads, some are perfectly reasonable people. More or less like anywhere else.
Why can’t we just call it Independence Day, that’s what it’s actually called
Sorry, that’s copyrighted.
We write it how you’d say it. Outside of holidays or days of remembrance we write it how you say it.
For example today is 4/13/25. April 13th 2025. If you say the 13th of April you’re fuckin weird.
That’s how YOU say it. Personally, I would say the 10th of March, the 2nd of June. But then, I’m not American.
And which do you ask more often what month is it or what day is it?
I don’t understand how that’s relevant?
Coldest take: if any common date format is difficult for you, you’re a little bit ridiculous
It’s all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don’t know which country they’re from
I only deal with people from one country, but I always write out the month so there’s no confusion in important messages. Even including the day of the week as a type of verification.
Context clues are enough for me, 4/7 times
November 9 never forget.
I usually go for if it has a / its probably US date formate…
We use dots in our Locale
RIP Australia and our DD/MM/YYYY (and rest of the former British Empire I assume).
Drives me nuts when software doesn’t properly localise.
Looking at you, Excel for web which defaults to MM/DD/YYYY in our company for some reason, even though the desktop app has no issues…
MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.
I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.
MM/DD/YYYY needs to die
Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.
YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.
I don’t actually disagree with anything you said, I was just being a bit cheeky
Happy not allowed! There can only be one correct date format!
What do you think of DD/HH/YYYY/Min/MM/Sec?
Could be improved by swapping hours and minutes. They are more important after all.
Also that way the time isn’t in order anymore.
Why is the format not:
2025/4/12
Biggest time frame to smallest time frame (year, month, then day)?
For written format that is ideal but when talking about a date, say in two weeks time, saying the year is redundant.
This is how I do it- my folders and files are super easy to find
my guess is order of relevance.
Because humans are not computers. That scheme makes sense when you are filling out things that are not nearby in time. For example, filling in your birth date on tax forms.
Otherwise, humans don’t generally need the context of the year. The same is true of the month only if the context is clear (I’ll see you on the 20th implies the very next 20th). A year is much longer and most things are not planned out that far in advance. If they are, they often dont have precise dates in which case a month or even a quarter is more appropriate.
Time is also one of those things where humans are so used to contextual processing that representing the full date adds overhead. 2025/4/20, 4/20/2025, 20/4/2025 all take more processing than “the 20th” or “next Sunday”.
In my computer engineering course this is literally how we were told to write the date on our lab reports.
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2025/4/12
Don’t forget leading zeroes, we’re not half assing this!
02025/04/012
ISO8601 FTW!
As a computer scientist, I’ve been doing this everywhere for over 10 years already. Be the change you want to see in the world.
I worked for a company that did their dates multiple ways and it was fucking impossible to know what date was what. It was super frustrating. I’d prefer this, but if you don’t, at least keep it consistent once you start.
If a date starts with the year, everyone will know the thing after it is the month. I’ve never ever seen YYYY/DD/MM. That, to me, seems like it wouldn’t add additional confusion at least.
They flipped month and day. If it was the year, you’re right.
ISO Tanf rise up.
Also 2025/04/12
Issues with unix paths. I prefer 2025-04-12.
2009, got it
This is the way.
Canada uses this
yyyy/mm/dd
I’m an American and do day/month/year.
I thought this was how it was done everywhere?
Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?
So the holiday that’s coming up in a week… Is it 4/20, or 20/4?
4/20 blaze it.
You’re Goddamn right.
The only day when america produces enough second hand smoke to compete with Paris.
We say it thats way for the benefit of the British.
Very independent.
With the way things are going over there, the whole thing falls apart soon enough and this issue can be fixed in the rebuild.
I like DD MON YYYY. Feels very grand and unambiguous, but people always look at me funny for using it.
I’ve been told I need to redo paperwork because I marked the date like 12APR2025.
I get standardization for computers, but for something a person is going to look at I feel like it’s very direct, needs no explanation or interpretation. Anyone who sees it should be able to figure it out instantly.
To be fair I read it as 12A PR 2025 (yes I am stupid). It could also be the 12th version of the main PR of 2025. I’m not great with abbreviations and when it comes to months I’m also not used to it. Numbers seem superior to me.
There is very little room for interpretation even if you don’t know the date format. That’s BS.
Don’t you mean Eramicans?
Don’t mock them.
One day you will meet one in person and he’ll beat you up if he’s 7 foot, 3/5 thumbs and 2 elbows tall.Foot is an SI derived unit, not familiar with the thumbs. And elbows don’t get used as measurement, elbows go up.
None of this dumb shits going to matter when the meteor sephiroth summoned blows the earth up
Of course it will still matter. You’ll need a calendar just to time out the animation for that spell it’s so fucking long.
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