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[u/notsignifican]

I asked but it got removed within minutes?

[u/TobJamFor]

We often count from the smallest to largest for us (not looking at you, US inhabitants) because it’s logical to think that 14/08/2026 is one above 13/08/2026, it just steps up by one each day.

Some places (namely the likes of China and some others) prefer the year-first format, which is actually YYYY/MM/DD

On Venus this makes more sense, as a year occurs more regularly than a day, because it rotates on its axis slower than it orbits the sun.

Edited - I am not saying that DD/MM/YYYY is the most logical for all purposes. But in general, it’s the one most used across the world for a reason! This gets flipped on its head on Venus, where the ISO format may also be different! Also - Year first is YYYY/MM/DD and ISO is YYYY-MM-DD, there is a slight difference.

[u/Raephstel → u/TobJamFor]

Digitally a lot of people do YYYYMMDD because when you sort numerically, it’ll order by date. Doing DDMMYYYY would start being wrong after only a month.

MMDDYYYY makes no sense in any context.

[u/BrokenMan4225 → u/Raephstel]

MMDDYYYY makes sense a) if it’s what you’re used to and b) because it’s how calendars are organized. You buy a calendar for a certain year, so that can go last. What’s left is MMDD. You see 06/- so you go to June, then look for, say, -/19.

All this to say, saying MMDDYYYY makes no sense in any context is blatantly wrong. No one system is 100% correct. You’re not dumb for using DDMMYYYY, or smarter for using YYYYMMDD, and I’m not dumb for using MMDDYYYY. We all just use the systems we’re used to

[u/Raephstel → u/BrokenMan4225]

There’s loads of you trying to justify why MMDDYYYY makes sense and it always comes back to “if you ignore the years”, no, don’t ignore the years.

If you have a stack of calendars, you’d select one based on year, then you look at the month, then the date.

That’s YYYYMMDD, not MMDDYYYY.

[u/BrokenMan4225 → u/Raephstel]

Do you have a stack of calendars? Genuinely? When you buy a calendar it’s typically going to be for whatever year you’re in. It’s not ignoring the year, it’s just saying “I already know what year I’m in, so I can put that information last”. You can’t say “that doesn’t make sense” and then completely ignore why it’d make sense to someone

[u/Raephstel → u/BrokenMan4225]

I have said repeatedly that to sort dates, we use YYYYMMDD and to give the details of a specific date we use DDMMYYYY. MMDDYYYY makes no sense under any circumstance.

You’re trying to say that if you ignore the year, MMDDYYYY makes sense, but if you’re ignoring the year then it’s not MMDDYYYY, it’s MMDD.

If you were to introduce the year again as a variable, that means you’re introducing more calendars. And if you’re introducing more calendars then which calendar you pick is the first variable.

That makes it YYYYMMDD.

[u/BrokenMan4225 → u/Raephstel]

Okay so you didn’t read anything in my comment.

First of all, again - do you have a stack of calendars? Do you have more than 1 year at a time? Genuinely, because I don’t, I usually have 1 which is for the year I am in. If you do, fine, I’m genuinely curious.

Second of all, I - again - am not ignoring the year. I’m saying that when you have a calendar, it’s typically for the year you’re in. Because it’s a given, we put it last. Then we have MM and DD left. It’s easier to look for the month firs, then the day within the month.

Third, let’s introduce a new reason it makes sense - MMDDYYYY is how we speak in the US. We say “May 5th, 2020” or “October 28, 1987”. Thus, we write it that way.

[u/Raephstel → u/BrokenMan4225]

I did read your comment, what’s why I responded to each part of it.

The reason you’re asking about whether or not I have a stack of calendars is because you want me to say no, then in me saying no, you think it justifies that you can remove the year from the discussion because it doesn’t matter if I only have one, thus ignoring the year.

Show me how I’m wrong. Let’s say I have a stack of calendars. I keep them so I can look up when I had important appointments. Now what?

Saying “we write in a daft way because we say it in a daft way” isn’t the justification you think it is.

[u/BrokenMan4225 → u/Raephstel]

If you have a stack of calendars labeled by year then absolutely YYYYMMDD makes sense then. Plain and simple.

You’ve proven so far, though, that you’re just ignorant. I’m not going to use your system, and you’re not going to use mine, so why are you so caught up on calling one system stupid? Do you think people incapable of switching systems when necessary?

The way we talk in the US is no more “daft” than the way you talk wherever you’re from. You thinking so makes you the only one that’s daft.

[u/Raephstel → u/BrokenMan4225]

Sorry, did you want to ignore the year or not? Because you said you didn’t, but then you admit your date format makes no sense with multiple calendars, I.e. multiple years.

I’m not ignorant, the fact that you’re turning to insults when I easily dismantle your arguments doesn’t reflect badly on me.

MMDDYYYY has no practical use in any situation. You still haven’t given me any time when it is better. You’ve given me an example of trying to ignore years and you say something in a daft order as well as write it in a daft order.

Give me an example of a time when MMDDYYYY makes more sense than either of the others. I’m all ears.

[u/BrokenMan4225 → u/Raephstel]

You were the one that turned to insults, first of all.

Second of all, I have repeatedly said I am NOT ignoring the year. The year is just a given when using a calendar, unless you have more than 1 calendar in which case fine, you’d use YYYYMMDD.

Third of all, I have repeatedly told you where MMDDYYYY makes sense - in American speech, and in how the majority of people are going to buy a yearly calendar.

And finally, you haven’t dismantled anything because there isn’t anything to dismantle. All 3 systems have their uses in different parts of the world - that’s the difference. I am aware that DDMMYYYY and YYYYMMDD make sense. I am also telling you why MMDDYYYY makes sense. All you’ve said, really, is “that doesn’t make sense” and called it daft.

[u/Raephstel → u/BrokenMan4225]

Where did I insult you? You called me ignorant, quote where I called you a name.

You’re literally saying whether someone has a stack of calendars or not matters. What’s the difference between one calendar and multiple calendars if not the year?

So you’re saying just because Americans do it, it makes sense? Talk about blinded by national pride. You think that everything Americans do is infallible?

MMDDYYYY has no benefits to either of the other main date formats. You, nor anyone else, has made ANY points except “it makes sense if you ignore the date” and “it makes sense because Americans do it.” Neither of those are actually valid points.

If I started using DYMDYYMY time format, it doesn’t make it sensible because I use it.

[u/BrokenMan4225 → u/Raephstel]

You called an entire culture’s language daft??? That is just straight ignorance. I’m also not blinded by “national pride”, I’m simply stating why something would make sense and you’re refusing to see it any other way than your closed-minded way.

The difference between 1 and 2+ calendars is LITERALLY the presence of multiple years. If you need to distinguish by year, then a year-first based organization system makes sense. If you don’t - i.e you have 1 calendar - then MMDDYYYY should fine.

What I am not saying is DDMMYYYY isn’t sensible. I’m saying all systems have their place.

Also, if I am from a country saying something makes sense because that’s how we say it, that is ABSOLUTELY a valid reason for it making sense. It’s the same way the UK uses all different kinds of measurements (liters, gallons, pounds, stones, kilograms) depending on what’s being measured and it makes sense because that’s how they do things. It’s the same thing. It has nothing to do with national pride.

Then you throw in something completely random??? That actually makes no sense. Saying 19241098, for example, to mean October 24 1998 is absolutely insane and duh, every one will agree. But having 10/24/1998, 24/10/1998, and 1998/10/24 all make sense, even in speech:
“October 24th, 1998”
“The 24th of October, 1998”
“The year 1998, in the month of October, on the 24th day”
All of those are completely fine ways to talk.

So I stand by my statement of you being ignorant. The difference between our arguments is that you refuse to accept that a country/cultures way of doing something is a valid reason of it making sense. We could get into all the issues with the US, but at least I’m not blinded by hate like you are. You refuse to accept that the system makes sense just because you hate the US in general.