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The US Tendency to Put the Month Before the Day/Date

posted 2 years ago by HarveyManFredSin (4877)
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Sorry, but it's really annoying.

The European practice of putting the date/day before the month (i.e. 11 September 2001, or 11/09/2001) makes far more sense (i.e. place the more specific/smaller unit of time, the day, and increasingly get larger, and less specific, as one moves from left to right), and when doing a search on a Microsoft Word program, it's much more helpful if one wants to find out what was happening during a particular month (i.e. I can search 09/2001 or 09/01; I can't do that so easily if the day is between the month and the year).

Can anyone explain to me why the Americans do this?

[–] roger_dat (1644) 2 years ago

That and not using metric system, counting things in inches, foots and weights in stones is so confusing

202306081051 SQL timestamp will always be the most perfect dating system

[–] moviechatterer (16049) 2 years ago

Theres a lot of ways to look at this (a surprising amount!) - especially if you work in databases

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1145/date-and-time-conversions-using-sql-server/

but the computers like 20010911 best.

[–] HarveyManFredSin (4877) 2 years ago

So, still in some type of order (in this case, from largest time period to smallest).