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[Jon L. Obscene]

What is with the American (and other countries) way of writing a date?

Here, today is the 10th of March 2005, written "10/03/2005"

In america and some other places you write 03/10/05

Why put the month first?
It goes up, the day is smallest time scale, then month, then year.
Same as time, "20 minutes past 4" , not 4:20, that sounds stupid.

Not having a pop, I'm just wondering where the logic comes from to put the month before the day?

Jonno

[TheDave]

11/9 isn't catchy

[Jon L. Obscene]

It was spose to be catchy?

What about before that? it's always been the same, I just wondered what logic there is to it.

Jonno

[TheDave]

there is no logic. it's american

[Jon L. Obscene]

Fair comment

Jonno

[100%]

i don't get it either - more logical is : d-m-yr

must have something to do with be "objective"

[TheDave]

i really need food, sorry

[Jon L. Obscene]

i don't get it either - more logical is : d-m-yr

must have something to do with be "objective"

It's cos they wanna change stuff, lik ewe just had mothers day and they think thats weird, yet we been doing that for 400 years on, but we're wrong?

Ok I can see this is gonna go into a rant so I'm gonna be quiet now

[100%]

d-m-yr
could be seen as
da-mn-year
which is something europeans are known to say when depressed - "DaMn Year and i'm DaMn Yer ass"

yet in the usa
m-d-yr
could be seen as
mo-d-year
possibly interpretted to - "this is a Mod Year(again) and where gonaa Mod Yer ass"

ok i'll stfu now - just trying to find some kinda of logic

[tesco]

because when you write the date you go Month Date, year. (March 10, 2005)

So it would only make sense to do it that same way when writing it all in number form wouldn't it? (03/10/2005)