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by selcuka 1307 days ago
> 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?

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> 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_...