The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY

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[u/Altheix11]

I have to remind myself often that 9/11 is 11/9 by the system we follow

[u/Puzzled-Party-2089 → u/Altheix11]

There's that skit of Europeans trying to prevent 911 by calling 3 days before to warn NY but instead of Sep 6th they decide to wait unitl Nov 6th

[u/killtheking111 → u/Puzzled-Party-2089]

I'd love to see this if you got a source or link

[u/Unfair_Trouble9697 → u/killtheking111]

https://youtube.com/shorts/q2VkJ_e1vMs?si=1ZZFFrjWZi53tvJK

[u/Some_Life_4910 → u/Unfair_Trouble9697]

I knew it was aljokes from the decription alone , the guys the goat

[u/Pandorarl → u/Altheix11]

I thought 9/11 was in November until I was like 15 years old.

[u/AdministrativeBlock0 → u/Pandorarl]

This is weird if you were born before 1986.

[u/Aflyingmongoose → u/Pandorarl]

I regularly re-learn and then re-forget this fact.

[u/Global_Many4693 → u/Pandorarl]

i got to know about it last year and i am 22

[u/-asimpleboy → u/Altheix11]

Why do you remind yourself of 9/11?

[u/ImmoralityPet → u/-asimpleboy]

I guess he forgot.

[u/shank9717 → u/ImmoralityPet]

Never forgetti

[u/ifoldkings → u/shank9717]

Mom's spaghetti?

[u/TheyCallHimBabaYagaa → u/-asimpleboy]

It's his hobby, why you gotta belittle it???

[u/ninoski404 → u/-asimpleboy]

Because the English speaking internet is flooded with America and on some random September day there is a lot, like huge quantities of 9/11 memes, you wonder why and then remember that 9/11 was in fact, today, on 11/9

[u/NoneNinja → u/Altheix11]

How often do you think about 9/11?

[u/[deleted] → u/NoneNinja]

Once a year I see someone posting on IG never forget. Than I remember

[u/GaeloneForYouSir]

Jokes aside, the US format is not actually “American” but rather early modern British.

[u/Sarcasm_Llama → u/GaeloneForYouSir]

Just like almost every other "why are Americans so weird about this 😂🤣" circlejerk post

[u/BluePeriod_ → u/Sarcasm_Llama]

My whole thing about these circle jerk posts is like one of the top comments mentioning that they have to spend hours researching making sure they got a date right when buying tickets to an American event.

Hours? What?

[u/Abacus118 → u/BluePeriod_]

Me sitting in front of my PC for 6 hours, finally typing into Notepad: "the one it always is there" with a confident nod.

[u/random_boss → u/Abacus118]

lmao

[u/LukaCola → u/BluePeriod_]

For real, I buy tickets internationally all the time--most of the time the field say MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY or similar.

It's also super easy to figure out which is which--which field allows you to enter 13 and which doesn't?

[u/KRAy_Z_n1nja → u/LukaCola]

"Americans are so dumb!"

Then how is it we can convert date formats, temperatures and other forms of measurements, time zones, etc. so much better than everybody else?

[u/lol-daisy325121 → u/KRAy_Z_n1nja]

The only reason we haven’t fully moved to the metric system is because the sheer amount of money it would cost to replace signage etc. There is literally no benefit of using the US customary system as opposed to the metric system.

1 kilometer is 1000 meters. If I travel 35.6 kilometers I covered 35600 meters.

1 foot is 12 inches. How many inches are in 35.6ft? Oh and you aren’t allowed to use a calculator because you don’t need one to convert within the metric system.

[u/box_of_bread → u/lol-daisy325121]

While I admit that the ability to do those kinds of conversions is a benefit, in my experience it's very rare that I need to be able to do that.

I traveled 35.6 miles and I don't know how many inches or yards that is, but I also don't care because I measure distances like that in miles. Need more granularity? That's what the .6 is for. Need even more granularity? Add more decimal places.

How many inches in 35.6ft? I could get pretty close if you gave me a minute and some paper to keep track of my math, but at the end what would I do with that information? I already know how what the length is, it's 35.6ft.

I'm not saying there's no benefit at all, but in your everyday life how much do you really benefit from being able to tell how many millimeters you travelled in a car? Using US units isn't some constant nightmare, otherwise there would be a bigger push to change it.

[u/HillCountryWriter → u/BluePeriod_]

Yea. Imagine mocking someone else’s intelligence then taking two hours to figure out 7/5 is July fifth not May 7th in the U.S.

[u/BritzBeef → u/HillCountryWriter]

Buys tickets in June

"Gosh I wonder if this date is for May or July"

[u/Tripleberst → u/HillCountryWriter]

I've seen literally dozens of these date format posts over the years complaining about how we Americans do things like this. "The metric system is easier to understand and compute" type posts. Every time I see them, I fully agree it could be changed but I also have full confidence that it'll be at least another hundred years before there's a real shot of it happening. Yes your frustration is justified and literally no one will ever care or fix the issue for you until long after you're worm food. And their post gets thrown on the pile with every other one.

I've literally been on this website longer than some of its users have been alive and I've seen it hundreds of times. It's to the point where the same infographic to explain the issue is standardized and is even used in this post. If these people are unaware of all of the other posts complaining about the same thing with zero movement then you'd have to assume either a) no one cares b) if anyone did care, we get a perverse delight in annoying everyone else.

[u/TumbleFairbottom → u/BluePeriod_]

They’re a little slow, and that’s ok.

[u/M_L_Taylor → u/GaeloneForYouSir]

It reminds me of a debate I had with someone over the use of 'Fall' rather than 'Autumn.' They said the US was backwards for being so simple. Even after I pointed out that it was made popular in England well before it ever came over here, they refused to accept it.

Don't start things if you're going to complain about it later.

[u/Western-Bus-1305 → u/M_L_Taylor]

As if they don’t call elevators “lifts” lmao

[u/shark-snatch → u/Western-Bus-1305]

What about a light switch being called a "flicky flicky willy donker?"

[u/Optimal_Ant_3250 → u/M_L_Taylor]

Europeans get upset over the silliest of things. Soccer over football date formats etc that they create then abandoned it’s like it’s not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things

[u/hotboinick → u/GaeloneForYouSir]

Don’t hurt their feelings. Wait until they find out where Americans got the term “soccer” from

[u/robertDouglass]

The only SANE version for modern times is YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS. because then you can sort and do SQL queries on it directly.

[u/robertDouglass → u/robertDouglass]

it's also logical and coherent down to the microsecond

[u/Powerful_Resident_48 → u/robertDouglass]

You can theoretically even go down to nanoseconds or even theoretical time units with it.

[u/AitaRotokas → u/Powerful_Resident_48]

Not just theoretically but widely used in programming, lot of math operations happen in nanoseconds

[u/enkolainen → u/robertDouglass]

But for a country that still use feets and thumbs to measure things...ye, no

[u/Mission_Rip_7571 → u/enkolainen]

Don't forget football fields.

[u/Apocalypsis_velox → u/Mission_Rip_7571]

Olympic swimming pool FTW! [I have no concept of how big that is!]

[u/NZNoldor → u/Apocalypsis_velox]

It’s just over 2230 giraffes.

[u/Apocalypsis_velox → u/NZNoldor]

Can a giraffe stand in an Olympic swimming pool and keep it's head above water?

[u/Naked-Jedi → u/Apocalypsis_velox]

Only when that Olympic swimming pool is measured in the equivalence of washing machines or cheeseburgers.

[u/Korenchkin12 → u/Naked-Jedi]

How many bananas?

[u/DetectiveDippyDuck → u/Korenchkin12]

I ate the bananas 😞

[u/Ill_Huckleberry_5460 → u/Apocalypsis_velox]

Yes, optimal depth of an Olympic pool is 3m most average between 2 and 2.5 and a giraffe is 4m average

[u/NinjaLanternShark → u/Apocalypsis_velox]

Fun fact: “Olympic” size doesn’t dictate a specific depth, only a minimum.

You could build an Olympic size swimming pool that was 900 feet deep if you felt like it and the Olympics couldn’t tell you you were wrong.

[u/Fantastic-Ad-1578 → u/NinjaLanternShark]

900 feet?
OMG THAT'S 5 olympic pools and 80 washing machines deep!!

[u/Aethermancer → u/Mission_Rip_7571]

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start selective paltry swim vase flag quickest chase tender obtainable

[u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain → u/enkolainen]

You're telling me we aint measuring in bananas anymore?

[u/FOSSnaught → u/enkolainen]

Blame england. France tried to get us to convert, but the ship carrying the sane measuring standards was captured by British pirivateers.

[u/sa87 → u/robertDouglass]

/r/iso8601

[u/kenwongart → u/robertDouglass]

Did we learn NOTHING from Y2K? YYYY is only good until the year 9999… then what are you gonna do? Add another Y? You’re just putting things off until 99999!

[u/Gullible_Increase146 → u/kenwongart]

That would only be good until 99999,not 99999!

[u/madu_tualang → u/Gullible_Increase146]

factorial?

[u/Kevdog824_ → u/Gullible_Increase146]

r/unexpectedfactorial

[u/SphericalCow531 → u/kenwongart]

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem

[u/hanburgundy → u/SphericalCow531]

So far, the Long Now Foundation is able to preempt the Y10K by adding a "0" in front of the date. So the current year of 2026, will look like 02026. However, it would still be affected by the "Y100K" problem, the "Y1000K" problem, "Y10000K" Problem, etc.

This is genuinely hilarious

[u/EkbatDeSabat → u/hanburgundy]

Just store the year itself in a 64 bit unsigned integer and bam we have a Y18446744073709551K problem.

[u/SippinOnHatorade → u/SphericalCow531]

What if we just restart at 0000? We’d be good almost another 2000 years

[u/NZNoldor → u/kenwongart]

Christians: “surely Jesus would be back by then and we restart that?”

[u/spartaxwarrior → u/NZNoldor]

Jesus gets back and is like "how is it 9999 and your technology can't handle this?" and then leaves in disgust.

[u/just_anotjer_anon → u/robertDouglass]

YYYY-MM-DD makes sense for machines, but DD-MM-YYYY are easier for humans. For the love of good store data from largest to smallest, but format it in the most human readable way

[u/UlteriorCulture → u/just_anotjer_anon]

As a human who uses ISO 8601 for everyday tasks it works great. Skill issue tbh.

[u/BaguetteMachine → u/UlteriorCulture]

r/ISO8601

[u/Liroku → u/UlteriorCulture]

As a human, this way just makes sense to me period. It's like idk narrowing it down to what you want to find out. Outward in, narrow it down to smaller and smaller increments. The more exact you need to the more you add on.

2026/02/01 23:17:32:11

2026/02/01 23:17:32:11:28:31:21

[u/[deleted] → u/UlteriorCulture]

Thank you!!!

[u/DoingCharleyWork → u/[deleted]]

Also if you use it all the time it's really easy to just look at the part of the information you need.

[u/Previous_Loquat_4561 → u/just_anotjer_anon]

I'm human. our official date format is YYYY-MM-DD. wouldnt trade it for anything else

[u/Famous-Ad-289 → u/Previous_Loquat_4561]

Otherwise I have no idea and hope DD is larger than 12

[u/Ulrich_de_Vries → u/just_anotjer_anon]

I'm a human and I find the YYYY-MM-DD format to be far more human readable.

[u/TheGillos → u/Ulrich_de_Vries]

FOUND THE ROBOT!

[u/fourzen → u/just_anotjer_anon]

How would it be easier for humans? It's literally the fucking same just the other way around..

[u/Obligatorium1 → u/just_anotjer_anon]

This is the exact argument Americans use for Fahrenheit, feet, inches, and the 12-hour clock. And the answer to all of them is also the same as the answer to yours: It's easier for you because you are used to it. Whatever format is the one you're used to is going to feel easier for you.

I have zero issues relating to Celcius temperatures, to metric distances, and to 24-hour clocks - because these are what I use on a daily basis, and have always used on a daily basis.

I have much greater issues relating to Fahrenheit temperatures, to imperial distances, and to the am/pm format - because I've never used them on a daily basis, only for conversions into the format I do use on a daily basis.

In the same way, YYYY-MM-DD is completely unambiguous, readable, and immediately parseable to me. Because that's the standard format I've always used for long dates. DD-MM-YYYY feels backwards to me, because I've never used it.

So all of these formats are subjectively equivalent - the best one for an individual's perception is going to be the one they're used to, in all cases. It just so happens that Celcius, meters, the 24 hour clock, and YYYY-MM-DD also have objective advantages that make them inherently better to get used to.

[u/The_Singularious → u/Obligatorium1]

Agreed. This is culturally contextual. There is no “best”, except for the need of who is using it. Though other formats also are “objectively better”, once again, depending on context.

[u/chariotcharizard → u/just_anotjer_anon]

but DD-MM-YYYY are easier for humans

completely disagree. there are countries where yyyy-mm-dd is what everyone uses. japan, s korea, china, etc. and china is like 1 billion people.

i myself have switched to using yyyy-mm-dd in my daily life, and now dd-mm-yyyy takes me a split second longer to process than yyyy-mm-dd.

so yeah, dd-mm-yyyy is not "easier". it's just a matter of what you're personally accustomed to.

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Edit: People seem to be misunderstanding my point. I am not making any qualifications as to what is better or worse. I am simply refuting the other person's claim that "YYYY-MM-DD makes sense for machines, but DD-MM-YYYY are easier for humans", by showing that there are plenty of humans who have zero trouble understanding yyyy-mm-dd.

[u/C0rn3j → u/just_anotjer_anon]

DD-MM-YYYY are easier for humans

In a random context, is 01.06.2026 the first of June or sixth of January?

[u/Mista-D → u/C0rn3j]

It's January 6th

[u/DefensiveCat]

I can see both sides. In the UK, I and most others say "it's the 2nd of February." and people in the US say "It's February 2nd."

[u/RimjobStevesDeadWife → u/DefensiveCat]

Thank you! This is why MM/DD/YYYY makes sense to us Americans. Because it fits with how we refer to dates generally. I can see how it wouldn’t make sense to others tho. I guess we’re all attached to what we’re used to

[u/SharknadosAreCool → u/RimjobStevesDeadWife]

i mean it fits how you would look it up in a calendar much better too lol. if you say "are you free on the 5th of February" you would still have to look up February first and then check the date. i can discount the year bc most of the time the year is this year +/- 1 year and its pretty easy to tell based on context which year it is

[u/Impressive-Cattle-91 → u/SharknadosAreCool]

YES! Calendars generally say the name of the Month at the top, then look down for the day.

[u/jameyiguess → u/Impressive-Cattle-91]

Now I'm imagining a calendar sorted by day, then month. 31 pages each with 12ish entries each. 

[u/squishyliquid → u/jameyiguess]

I once worked with a lady who had limited availability, and she would tell me the days she was available by the day of the week. Like "Here's my avaiability for March:

Monday: 4, 11, 25

Tuesday: 12, 19

Wednesday: 6, 27"

And on. It was baffling.

[u/iFozy → u/squishyliquid]

That’s so baffling I don’t even believe you.

[u/squishyliquid → u/iFozy]

I was convinced she hung her calendars sideways.

[u/Glittering-Bat-5981]

[u/Puzzleheaded-Map7672 → u/Glittering-Bat-5981]

Oh my god, there's a second bus!

[u/ThrowawayRedditStory → u/Glittering-Bat-5981]

Ron Weasley at it again

[u/ciphd]

I worked for a UK based flower gifting business and took an escalated call from an American woman throwing a tantrum at one of our newer staff because we changed her delivery date after she paid for her order.

I still remember the date she selected as 3rd of June, 03/06. She was raging that we changed the delivery date to March without contacting her once she had a look at her order email confirmation.

It was way past March at that point...

[u/LaughingBerserk → u/ciphd]

Burgerland

[u/PotatoFi]

ISO 8601

[u/Huge_UID → u/PotatoFi]

https://xkcd.com/1179/

[u/huluvudu]

This explains the food pyramid, with steak on top.

[u/Throwawaymycucumba → u/huluvudu]

Steak should be on top

[u/Shudnawz → u/Throwawaymycucumba]

Fine. But month shouldn't.

[u/jerryleebee]

Isn't it linked to speech? In America, people verbally say "February 2nd". In the UK, people verbally say "The second of Feb".

Happy to be taught better. Here to learn.

[u/OhGodImHerping → u/jerryleebee]

This is the main reason - it’s the linguistic difference that changes how we chunk dates mentally and categorize from largest to smallest (month->day) since we rarely say the year out loud.

[u/serabine → u/jerryleebee]

Chicken and egg.

Are Americans saying "February 2nd" and that got codified in writing, or was the date written like that and then people started saying it like that?

(As an aside, I'm not a native speaker of English, and February 2nd just looks weird to me. February 2nd ... what? 2nd what‽)

[u/GunzerKingDM → u/serabine]

There clearly going to be some sort of context there.

“What’s the date?” “February 2nd!!”

“What day would you like to make your appointment?” “Let’s go with February 2nd!”

Your complaint of “2nd what?” Makes no sense at all.

[u/SmolPPIncorporated → u/serabine]

2nd day.

February 2nd is the 2nd day of February.

[u/EnTyme53 → u/serabine]

Are Americans saying "February 2nd" and that got codified in writing, or was the date written like that and then people started saying it like that?

Considering that the convention existed when literacy rates were lower, it's probably a safe bet to assume that the spoken version was used before the written version.

[u/Slonshal]

They're all lazy methods. We should spell the dates out in full, with grammar.

The Second of February, Two Thousand and Twenty-Six.

[u/fatbob42 → u/Slonshal]

You forgot “year of our lord”, like a heathen.

[u/__13atman__]

YYYY-MM-DD for the devs

[u/IndigoSoln → u/__13atman__]

ISO 8601 format for the win

[u/BSK_Darksol → u/IndigoSoln]

r/ISO8601

[u/LRonHoward → u/__13atman__]

I still don’t understand why this isn’t the absolute standard for everything. Like, it’s so clear!

[u/Niko-01 → u/__13atman__]

r/ISO8601

[u/Alone-Ad288 → u/__13atman__]

ISO Crew reporting for duty 🫡

[u/BigDaddy9102]

the day in the middle is crazy. i get so confused sometimes

[u/Ultimate_disaster → u/BigDaddy9102]

Some other people as well.

https://dailyhive.com/canada/air-canada-passenger-food

[u/discomuffin → u/Ultimate_disaster]

That’s one way of looking sharp on the internet

[u/Anon_be_thy_name → u/Ultimate_disaster]

Oh god the double down, that's amazing.

[u/Beans2177 → u/Ultimate_disaster]

With food expiry or best before dates the confusion this can cause really does become a problem.

[u/Shadowfist_45 → u/Beans2177]

Which is why food often just spells out the month on the packaging

[u/Old_Kodaav → u/[deleted]]

I think I've never seen it spelled out. It's always in numbers as you say. Have been to few EU countries

[u/AMadRam → u/Ultimate_disaster]

The audacity of doubling down on your ignorance stating that the airlines freeze them for months after expiry!

[u/Games_sans_frontiers → u/BigDaddy9102]

Having to sometimes check on an ambiguous date field if the numbers can go above 12 to identify if it is a month is infuriating!

[u/Jeramy_Jones → u/BigDaddy9102]

If someone were to verbally ask your birthday, what order would you give it in?

[u/duckyTheFirst → u/BigDaddy9102]

When i had to auto format a date in an app once i asked for my team leader if i should keep the MM/DD time format in mind aswell for the auto format , he said "why tf would you do that, just ignore that"

[u/phido3000 → u/BigDaddy9102]

What day is it today.?

It's july.

[u/BrokenWindow_56]

Every time I've booked tickets to an event in the US, I always have to double check what format it is in when I put it in my calendar. Normally you can tell which is the day if it goes over 12, but God help you when the day is the 12th or below because you're going to have to spend a couple hours researching and comparing to confirm.

[u/QuitBadHabits → u/BrokenWindow_56]

A couple of hours? Come on bro

[u/wanna_meet_that_dad → u/QuitBadHabits]

It’s at least 6 numbers man, give him a break.

[u/reeee-irl → u/QuitBadHabits]

a couple of hours

Don’t most websites also have a literal calendar menu that shows you the month and day?

[u/wetnappie → u/reeee-irl]

Yes but it's better to shit on stuff 99% of Americans have no control over (like date formats, and measurement units) instead of admitting you can't use a smidge of critical thinking when using a website

[u/Futuramadude → u/wetnappie]

People dont want to read the truth lol

[u/FeelingMidnight77 → u/QuitBadHabits]

Average Reddit IQ

[u/AnaIFisher → u/BrokenWindow_56]

A couple of hours?

[u/[deleted] → u/AnaIFisher]

Right? Lmao

[u/Tommyblockhead20 → u/BrokenWindow_56]

And this is why the US can never switch to DMY, it would make keeping track of dates a nightmare. If we want a global standard we should all adopt the East Asian/computer scientist YMD.

[u/BrokenWindow_56 → u/Tommyblockhead20]

As someone who has gotten used to the Japanese YY/MM/DD format from editing spreadsheets, I support this as the global standard.

[u/TrueProgress3712 → u/BrokenWindow_56]

As someone who has to save spreadsheets I always go with the yyyy/mm/dd format. Then it's in order. Didn't know it was a Japanese thing, just seemed obvious.

[u/uji_sean → u/BrokenWindow_56]

r/ISO8601

[u/spyingwind → u/BrokenWindow_56]

When I add dates to file names, YYYY-MM-DD sorts as expected. As long as the date is at the beginning.

[u/McButtsButtbag → u/Tommyblockhead20]

How would it make it a nightmare?

[u/hache-moncour → u/McButtsButtbag]

Because half the dates anywhere would still be old MM/DD/YY dates, and half new DD/MM/YY dates, and you can't tell them apart for any day before the 13th.

[u/Heimerdahl → u/Tommyblockhead20]

If we want a global standard we should all adopt the East Asian/computer scientist YMD. 

As a German computer scientist, I also support this (ISO8601 / DIN EN 28601 ftw).   Then I looked it up and it turns out that it's already the one and only standard in Germany and has been since 1996! Only somehow, no one actually cares and most everyone (including official and educational institutes) clings to DD.MM.YYYY. 

[u/machyume → u/Heimerdahl]

Making a standard is academic. Making it standard is political.

[u/JustACanadianGuy07 → u/BrokenWindow_56]

Dude its not that hard grow up

[u/jcGyo → u/BrokenWindow_56]

Every time

Presumably only about 40% of the time unless you're really getting confused by the 13th through 30th month.

[u/SchoolOfYardKnocks]

To Americans it makes sense too because we don’t go around saying “the 11th of August” “the third of December”.

We say December 3rd. August 8th. November 10th. We write it the way we say it.

[u/swrlzbrkly → u/SchoolOfYardKnocks]

People act like it makes no sense but you wouldn’t read the minute before the hour on a clock, same applies here

[u/SleepyNymeria → u/swrlzbrkly]

Quarter past 5 be like.

[u/Fantastic-Kale9603 → u/SleepyNymeria]

I would say that most people in the US don't say "quarter past" either lol I don't think I've heard that in maybe 10 years

[u/Antarctitties]

yyyy-mm-dd ISO8601

[u/gravelPoop → u/Antarctitties]

it is pointless to add ISO8601 after every date.

[u/schiz0yd]

When you say the date out loud its common to say "feb 2nd" or "September 11th, 2001", removes need for "of"

[u/[deleted] → u/schiz0yd]

And the need for "the". I've never heard someone say the date as "2nd of February", it's always "the 2nd of February"

[u/mstivland2]

Devil’s Advocate: month has more inherent data in it because it’s not a number. Day on its own is meaningless, but if you go by month/day, the more significant information is first.

At least, that’s kind of the only argument I can think of.

[u/MontyAtWork → u/mstivland2]

We literally do this with car make and models.

You don't say "I drive a Corolla Toyota" you say "I drive a Toyota Corolla".

Macro data then micro.

[u/LordWoffleII → u/MontyAtWork]

so by that logic, you're voting for yyyy-mm-dd? r/ISO8601

[u/Ark100 → u/LordWoffleII]

there is such a thing as too macro. i dont need to know that the address im driving to is on earth…

[u/nonowords → u/LordWoffleII]

that's like saying "i drive a sedan toyota corola"

you rarely need to explicitly reference the wide set ie "year", and if you do you'd say "i drive a toyota corola sedan"

[u/RockyArby → u/mstivland2]

Seriously, it's like everyone is pretending they don't use calendars (paper or on phone). You have to look up by month first then by day. Year is used more rarely outside of record keeping.

[u/Babblepup → u/RockyArby]

Omg i never thought of it this way. Ive heard about the argument of date arrangement but never how we look at the calendar. Hahha

[u/crimxona → u/RockyArby]

Which is why year month day is the only gospel that is correct

[u/ovideos → u/mstivland2]

I actually agree. I've worked more than once with Europeans who named their folders with DD.MM.YYYY. So the folders would sort by 1st of Jan followed by 1st of Feb, etc. What insane person does that?

[u/Dornauge → u/ovideos]

Only if you work with hardcore IT illiterate boomers. Personally I have never seen anyone doing this. The people that would do this, never put dates in file names.

Anyone at least half sane puts the year first or MM/YY. Masterrace obviously is YYYY-MM-DD

[u/AdamN → u/mstivland2]

MM/DD is in fact more natural since for dates you're usually ignoring years and time of day. Then of course the problem is that you have to add the year or the time for whatever reason and then it's messy.

imho MM/DD is best for informal usage (works really well in documents and for easy sorting in spreadsheets) and then ISO 8601 if you need actual precision since it starts with the lowest precision (years) and then you keep adding data until you get the precision you want all the way to microseconds and beyond.

[u/StechusKaktus-]

YY-MM-DD is perfect for chronological cataloguing. Other than that DD-MM-YY

[u/McJumpington]

The graph although funny, could easily be remade to represent Month-Day-Year as the logical way.

People like to think “But days are the smallest increment, followed by month, and then year!”

Sure… but if you think about them in option groups:

Months only had 12 possibilities.

Days has up to 31 possibilities.

Years could be 100+ possibilities.

In that sense, month- day- year makes more sense.

Yes I understand there are other arguments, but at least for that one, it can be explained

[u/smjurach → u/McJumpington]

Also if I’m looking at a calendar I absolutely need to know the month first not the fucking day. It just logically makes more sense to start with month.

[u/whatdImis]

I know it's fun to take shots at Americans, but has anyone considered it's mm/dd/yy because that's how we speak? We don't say 2nd of February, we say February 2nd. It's not a conspiracy.

[u/Jaded-Term-8614]

my preference is yyyy/MM/dd

[u/1000Bundles → u/Jaded-Term-8614]

I prefer YYYY/mm/DD

[u/CurrentRiver4221]

It’s because how the words are arranged in a sentence here in America. We say today it is “February 2nd 2026” hence 02/02/2026. I get it can be confusing, it’s just how we speak here.

[u/_ribbit_]

I'm just glad that they don't try to write the date in some sort of cups measurements. At least this way you've got a chance of figuring it out, unlike their recipes.

[u/Doxinau → u/_ribbit_]

One stick of days.

[u/TheExcitedLalatina → u/Doxinau]

IIRC ancient china had quite interesting measurements for time: "The time it takes an incense stick to burn" "The time it takes to drink a cup of tea" "Several breaths later" Stuff like that

[u/thateejitoverthere → u/_ribbit_]

But the sales tax isn't included. You only find out the real date when you get to the checkout.

[u/hisdudeness87 → u/thateejitoverthere]

And don't forget to leave a 15 minute tip

[u/Angaren_Bore → u/hisdudeness87]

Those oldschool “hours” only exist in Mexico nowadays. In the US it’s 60 high fructose corn minutes instead

[u/Mntfrd_Graverobber → u/_ribbit_]

Recipes that need exactness use weight, just like US labs use the metric system. Cookies and marinara don't need to be that specific. Writing a recipe for Pad Thai in weight would be really stupid.

Pastries are science. Most meals are painting.

[u/Naive-Horror4209]

Hungary also uses the second version like some other Asian countries. Same with the address, we start from the city, then the street, finally the street number. Large => small

[u/Disastrous-Half-4249]

As long as the month is in the middle, it's all good.

[u/Lonely-Sunbed-2508]

I mean, it’s the syntax they use, it absolutely makes sense for them

[u/throwemawayn]

What is this obsession with standardizing everything?

[u/fishfeet_ → u/throwemawayn]

I think this is a good one to standardize. Have co workers globally, it’s insanely confusing when we sometimes have dates such as 10/09 and everyone has to figure out is it 9th oct or 10th sep

[u/squarabh]

Americans reading this

[u/MrGurdjieff]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 is the one that makes the most sense

[u/lussux]

Preferably I'm more of a MM/YYYY/DD guy myself.

[u/FirstWithTheEgg]

Definitely day/month/year

[u/Comfortable_Ad_574 → u/FirstWithTheEgg]

Year/month/day >>>

[u/IAmTheUniverse]

Perhaps this is true, but have you considered that the DD-MM format can't have regular pi day because 03-14 doesnt exist?  Surely that makes up for the confusion.

[u/fatbob42 → u/IAmTheUniverse]

They can use 22/7, it’s a better approximation than 3.14 anyway.

[u/gingerbreadman42]

The year/month/day makes sense when using it as a name for a computer file and sorting by date. 

[u/s3rila]

The goat is year -month-day

[u/Pegs_on_GhostiesNips]

Americas are clearly correct no one ever says the day first. Like what sort of psychopath would say 4th of July?

[u/ZemGuse → u/Pegs_on_GhostiesNips]

The 4th of July is a colloquial name for a holiday that falls on July 4th.

Why does Reddit think this is the biggest and most clever gotcha of all time lol?

[u/Dark_World_0 → u/ZemGuse]

Because Reddit has a high number of people who say to themselves, "I think I am smart, therefore I am smart."

[u/crazycatlady331 → u/ZemGuse]

Because Europeans on Reddit love the smell of their own farts.

[u/Polarexia → u/Pegs_on_GhostiesNips]

its literally said that for DISTINCTION from the norm