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by filoeleven
1668 days ago
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Your last paragraph is a strong argument for the American system of month/day/year. Days lose most of their relevance unless they are in the current month, so month-first is much more logical and better, because it gives the mind the necessary accuracy without the useless precision. And furthermore… Just kidding. Month-first is as crazy as camping in February. I’m only used to it because I’m American. Getting us to switch to day/month/year seems more confusing than switching to year-month-day, because the latter is different enough to remove all ambiguity when reading. 06/08/2021 could be June 8 or August 6, but 2021-08-06 is clear since (to my knowledge) no one has ever used “year/day/month.” As you say, this all really applies to full written dates only, since conversation relies much more on context anyway. You are forgiven if you stopped reading this comment before now :) |
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