Day/Month/Year - How is this not a global standard?

[Gamma Ray]

Today is 11/01/11 not 01/11/11.

 

[Scourge2099]

Whatever commie.

 

[Speedball]

Shut up you crazy European!!! Just because your country doesn't want to have fun with dates doesn't mean you can spoil it for everyone!

 

[Gamma Ray]

I just want to know where the logic is in the American system.

 

[Speedball]

I just want to know where the logic is in the American system.

We're American, we don't use logic here. We leave that stuff up to the British and Vulcans.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Americans don't have time for logic. We've got stuff to blow up.

 

[Wylie Times]

Well what's the logic of doing it the other way besides "Everybody else is doing it"?

 

[Scourge2099]

The month is more important than the day that's why. Who wants to remember September 11 , 2001 as 11/9 instead of 9/11 ? No one , because it sounds stupid that way. Makes it sound like it happened on November the 9th.

 

[Speedball]

The month is more important than the day that's why. Who wants to remember September 11 , 2001 as 11/9 instead of 9/11 ? No one , because it sounds stupid that way.

I guess it's also because we say or type "January 11, 2011", so we just translate it to numbers 1/11/11.

 

[Harls]

I don't use it that way (dd/mm/yy) because it's more confusing for the first twelve days of a month.

And the month is more important than the day, like Scourge said already. For example, I'd much rather know what month it is than just what day it is.

 

[Gamma Ray]

I don't use it that way (dd/mm/yy) because it's more confusing for the first twelve days of a month.

And the month is more important than the day, like Scourge said already. For example, I'd much rather know what month it is than just what day it is.

By that logic, why do you write street addresses as 100 Main Street and not Main Street 100?

Also, January 11, 2011 would be 11 January 2011, so that's not a great argument either.

 

[Speedball]

I think it's just the way we say things is different, and that reflects how we write them. It's a cultural thing. It's not as big as something as drastically different as the metric and imperial systems of measurement.

 

[Scourge2099]

Who cares why we Americans like and do things differently than our foreign counterparts. If you hate the way we do things then ignore it. I don't get mad when I watch the BBC and they say the date differently.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Europe = Backasswards. Writing the date and addresses like that is just confusing as hell.

 

[Harls]

By that logic, why do you write street addresses as 100 Main Street and not Main Street 100?

Also, January 11, 2011 would be 11 January 2011, so that's not a great argument either.

Again, number is more important than the street name itself. Especially if you already have the city.

 

[The Squirrel]

It's now 01/12/2011... deal with it.

 

[Timstuff]

Blah, I don't really care. I just write whatever I feel like and let other people worry about what date I meant to write down.

 

[The Squirrel]

blah, i don't really care. I just write whatever i feel like and let other people worry about what date i meant to write down.

20/12/01/11?

 

[Timstuff]

That kind of ambiguity offers ample protection. If something was dated and it was time sensitive, you can always fall back on plausible deniability if it was submitted too late or has become outdated.

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

America #$%* yeah!!!!!

 

[bell110]

By that logic, why do you write street addresses as 100 Main Street and not Main Street 100?

Also, January 11, 2011 would be 11 January 2011, so that's not a great argument either.

Do you say eleventh of January or January eleventh in speech?

How come you don't use second:minute:hour instead of hour:minute:second? Why do we have an am/pm instead of just having a 24 hour system?

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Everyone on this forum is ****** in the head, you hear me? ******.

 

[BlueLightning]

I think it is based on pronunciation like you said. In my country we first say the number of the day and then the month, like "16 de Septiembre". And I always found confusing that Americans do it backwards.

Because we are accustomed to say it one way, it is weird for both of us to see it backwards in another country.

 

[Trainwreck2100]

Because we beat the euro posterior end so we can say it however we want

 

[E-Man]

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