[lifthrasiir]

> Every country except the US (not counting the ones that use YYYY/DD/MM, such as Japan).

What? Japanese dates are always year-month-day, with slightly different separators. More generally the date notation tends to strongly reflect how it is spoken (e.g. "1st January 2023" becomes "1/1/2023") and there are enough countries where you never put day before month.

[selcuka]

> Japanese dates are always year-month-day

Ugh, of course. That's a typo.

> the date notation tends to strongly reflect how it is spoken

Why does it differ between English speaking countries, then?

[lifthrasiir]

> Why does it differ between English speaking countries, then?

Because they speak differently? I would expect "November 17, 2022" spoken as "November seventeenth, twenty twenty-two" vs. "17 Nov 2022" as "seventeenth of November, twenty twenty-two". Wikipedia [1] does say that the latter DMY form recently arose possibly in order to resolve ambiguities and the spoken form is less common, but I expect it to be more frequently spoken after enough years of usage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_...