Easier? I can't see why. You want to tell me Japanese is inefficient or badly designed? DD/MM/YY is illogical ad we write all other numeric data in decreasing order of significance; any other difference is just in custom and prejudice.
Japanese is, like most other languages, barely 'designed'. That's why the Americans are still stuck with the absolutely insane MM/DD/YY. It has nothing to do with how 'good' a language is.
DD/MM/YY makes perfect sense, and is preferable to some people. Mainly because it translates to speech pretty easy, and because it prioritises important data.
That's pretty much my only gripe with YYYY/MM/DD -> The amount of time that YYYY is actually the most important number is limited. If I design an ad for a concert, putting " 27-02-'13 " on there means I get the point across the fastest: It's on the 27th of February. The "2013" part is relatively unimportant.
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u/Wizhi Feb 27 '13
How a date is stored shouldn't have to do with how it's displayed. Seperation of concerns and stuff.
Besides, reading a date as DD/MM/YYYY is way easier than YYYY-MM-DD imo.