What's with writing dates like this: MM/DD/YY?

Question

Can't we just either go from smallest to largest, or largest to smallest?

I prefer either DD/MM/YY or YY/MM/DD.

YY/MM/DD seems to make the most sense to me.

I really hate it when people do that MM/DD/YY thing.

Is this part of that American inability to adopt metric too? (Although I've seen this in Canada as well).

Answer 1

Yeah, this sucks. It makes filling out forms in Canada confusing. I usually write 20 Jan 2008. This way it's always clear.

Answer 2

americans are dumb. that's how we like to do it. i could ask this same question just the other way around....

8/23/08

Answer 3

not sure where you're from, but i live in Australia. nation wide, we (australians) always write the date at DD/MM/YY. i have noticed that american's always write it MM/DD/YY which i agree with you, is very weird.

hahah but i think american's do a lot of things weird! lol

(no offense to any American's, by "weird" i just mean different)

makes it hard to understand sometimes unless one of the numbers is over 12 so you know which is the day.

:-)

Answer 4

Dont be an idiot! There is more to the World than the US, the entirety of Europe use DD/MM/YY get over it.

Answer 5

idk, but i actually like it like that....

Answer 6

I Hate it too :) lol

I Rite It.... DD/MM/YY

28/02/1992 :( My bday :D haha

The other ways are just rong :)

Much Love <3

Answer 7

Well, the reason they do that, is because your in, what month? and then, what day are we in of that month? f=inally, people say okay now that u have that, because its the largest number, lets put the year last.

I agree, its really annoying

Answer 8

Don't try to cloak your Dyslexia with some sort of nationalistic whining.

The only reason they created the metric system was so that the rest of the world could learn how to count.   :-)

Really, I think it has more to do with each language's sentence structure.  In the US, most people will say the date as August 23, 2008, but in many places, the same answer to that question would be the 23rd of August, 2008.  When you abbreviate those answers to just numbers, they come out different.