It's more natural for "January 12th" speakers. (I don't support/approve/endorse the use but in true debating fashion...!!)
Can anyone say anything in defence (or defense) of the MM/DD/YY date format? It must exist for some reason. Does anyone know what it is?
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That was my best guess... "January 12th" makes sense, provided you don't mention the year!
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maybe they started with MM/DD and then realized years change so they added the year feature later.
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In English we say"January 1st, 2017".MM/DD/YY mirrors this.I guess it's from time before automatic sorting by date was important
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Yeah, good point that the automatic sortability by computation engine probably wasn't a primary consideration...
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Wasn't it you who called it "middle-endian" format to me? ;)
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short to type and mirrors the way the date is spoken when, for example, someone says their birthday.
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Because Americans say "May 1st", not "the 1st May". Not a defence, but an explanation.
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because, given enough parallel universes, everything must happen at least once. We're just in one of the bad ones.
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