MM/DD/YYYY not DD/MM/YYYY ?

Jake...

Jake...

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I'm sitting in class today writing the date on my math note and the same thought pondered through my head again. Does it not make sense for the date to be sequential: i.e. day, then month, then year? Does anyone in here know who "Created" this, or why it's done? It just seems more confusing to me.

I know last year my buddy got pumped for 1:23 04/05/06 and then april 5th came around and he was waiting for may 4th. And he missed it.

Is it just one of society's accepted mess-ups?
 
I don't know if this is right but maybe the reason that we use 01/08/06 is because that is the sequence we say dates in. eg January 8, 2006
 
half the time i dont know what day it is and i really have no hope in hell to know if it is the 12th or 8 th so i really dont worry about the whole date shit
 
ok. this whole entire season that our FIVE major resorts were open... we got 45 CM of snow.

and when i was in europe last christmas, there was alot more snow there.

im not talking about right at the moment, just... in general.
 
no bueno!!

you write mm/dd because it sounds better to say january 1st 2007 than it is to say the 1st of january 2007
 
i've seen it both ways. i think they do mm/dd/yyyy because it's like saying: 12/25/06 = december 25th, 2006. as opposed to dd/mm/yyyy: 25/12/2006 = 25th of december, 2006.

the way we speak of a date we usually say it in mm/dd/yyyy.
 
and that is why you update to km, m, cm etc...

the british have a history of losing things that are theirs... such as the cricket...5-0...hahaha.
 
its actually a pretty big problem since it is not standardized. Canada does is one way and the States does it another. I work in a grocery store, so products depending on where they are from have these different dates. So, it poses a problem for expiry dates, there should be a standard way of doing it.
 
screw metric, imperial all the way.

but mm/dd/yy makes sense, because as mentioned, it is how we say it for the most part. Occasionally we may say something like: the 12th of January, but for the most part, it goes like: January 12th.

But it gets confusing when dealing with different countries. I was dealing with some translation work, some would go from Japan to the U.S., then to Britain for editing, then back to Japan, and all the sequence of dates got all screwy. Thats when standardization wouldn't hurt, but whatever.
 
ACTUALLY,... if you had any schooling at all

in canada it is known as DAY MONTH YEAR...

day mo year.....
 
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