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by readthenotes1 953 days ago
Plus, it sorts naturally.

Starting with the day or the month is Ludacris.
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rekoil 953 days ago
Day I can accept, even if I dislike it. Starting with the month will always make me angry. It just has no logic to it.
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alanbernstein 953 days ago
Sure it does. It's the shortest way to specify a date within a period of a year surrounding the current day... Which means it's a date format that should only ever be spoken, not committed to written record.
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actionfromafar 951 days ago
Month first is not even syntactically correct, even in spoken form, in some languages.
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