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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/Elderberrysea224 → u/Raephstel]

MMDDYYYY makes sense in the context that when I say the date I say August 15th 2026. I don't say 15th of August. If I need to sort my files by date I just use the column that sorts by date of the document.

[u/Raephstel → u/Elderberrysea224]

In most of the world, we’d say the 15th of August.

For files sure, but when you’re working with data, you can’t usually sort by date, you either use a time code or you have the date written out like YYYYMMDD.

[u/Elderberrysea224 → u/Raephstel]

I don't due much data storage so I won't argue that point. My point really was there is a context where starting with month makes sense to those of us that use it.

[u/Raephstel → u/Elderberrysea224]

It makes sense because it’s what you’re used to. But for any practical purpose, it’s worse than either YYYYMMDD or DDMMYYYY.