It does make sense

Personally I prefer Minutes: Day: Year: Seconds: Hour: Month.

If i hear one more person talk about sorting stuff on pc i swear i’m gonna cause technical armageddon, bringing us back to the dark ages

Yeah, because miles, yards, feet and inches makes so much sense

YYMMDD is the best when naming digital documents. Otherwise I prefer DDMMYY because I can remember month and year, but need reminders for the day XD

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Depending on the ppw and which agency within the USA, the format can be YYYYMMDD, MMDDYY, or my favorite DDMMMYY (when writing on a form so there can be no mistakes). The first one first one seems best. DDMMYY and MMDDYY are interchangeable in my mind based on the country or culture. Why? Most Americans I know would verbally say January 15th, 2025. So naturally they think MMDDYY since it’s how they speak.

Glad to see we are fighting the most important battles still as a civilization

In the military we use: 15JAN2025

It’s horrifyingly simple.

I will write MM/DD/YY till I die, but I have to admit that DD/MM/YY is definitely more logical.

I know logically that DD/MM/YY makes the most sense, but my brain is so used to MM/DD/YY that the other systems throw me off. Definitely think they should be teaching it as DD/MM/YY though.

for all of the people in the comments as an Iranian we write it like that because we write right to left except for numbers so when you read it in the middle of a sentence it is ddmmyy

and for the idiot saying why do people care its because we enjoy watching or reading media and understanding what date its referring to and all of the world understands small to big you need to know English and “how you say dates in English” to understand why you order it that way (which most of the time you also say 10th of December and stuff)

ISO 8601 or epoch!

I don’t get the American system that starts with month. I had to dealt with it on a computer system and is infuriating that someone thinks makes sense

My favourite part about this is that whenever I work with US based companies and they send files sorted by date they always use YYMMDD (same as we do).

So clearly Americans are capable of adapting how they sort dates when needed. They just refuse to understand things when an employer isn’t hounding them to do so it seems.

Extending the argument that people say January 15th , so write it as 01/15/2025

When the time is quarter past 12., do Americans write 1/4, 12?

If you cant figure out international dates you most likely enjoy the taste of paste as an adult.

I name files in my computer with year-month-day followed by a name, so they will sort chronologically. A friend of mine on a Drive we share uses month (eg January, versus 01), date, then year, so February 12, 2024 comes before February 17, 2023, and December 1, 2024 comes before November 30, 2024, and it makes scanning the folder looking for a file frustrating.

the American way makes sense when you realize most times the year isn’t required, but you can get very specific with the time, down to the millisecond, Month/Day/Hour/Minute/Second/Millisecond, and all of those are in descending order, it’s very useful for describing a point in time in extreme detail

Yr.mo.da is how I label all my files so I can sort alphabetically by date.

What date was the Declaration of Independence?
If you say the 4th of July, 1776 – then you know the correct date format is DD/MM/YYYY

year/month/day is a breeze. month/day/year hurts my brain.

For day to day use day/month/year flows nicely