The UK still uses an odd combination of metric and imperial. Most of us will give our weight in stones and our height in feet. Distance is in miles, unless you're running, in which case it's kilometres. Liquids are measured in millimetres unless it's milk or beer, in which case it's pints.

Fahrenheit only goes to 451 degrees, and then it bursts into flames.

To be fair, the farenheit scale isn't totally random: The 18th-century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit originally took as the zero of his scale the temperature of an equal ice-salt mixture and selected the values of 30° and 90° for the freezing point of water and normal body temperature

Year month day is the actual format that makes the most sense. It's eminently sortable it's very easy to tell what comes before something else and it really is The Logical way

I don't know anyone that references a mile in yards.

This becomes confusing and dangerous when in a Medical Situation when they rely on an Accurate date for treatment and medication. You get something like 1/2/24 Now is that January or February. Taken the Australian way of writing, that date is the 1st February 2024, There are a number of Medical Doctors and Nurses in the system, where this date is the 2nd of January 2024, This can be disastrous for future Medical Treatment.

We live in Australia but for some reason my FIL who served during WW2 has his DOB listed as 06/03/1918 yet his proper DOB is 03/06/1918. So thinking somehow Americans were involved in paperwork for the Air force.

Why we hang on the Fahrenheit here in the U.S. is beyond me. Probably too expensive to change. You do see combination temperatures here, both F. and C.

But, using Celsius would make it so we couldn't say, "At least, it's not below zero, today", to make ourselves feel better.

Fahrenheit makes a lot of sense when you learn it was created for measuring water temperature for sailors on the sea for nautical safety and navigation. And because the british empire was sea based, the Brits and therefore the former British Colonies (the US being the last one still using it) used at the time that system. Also understanding a Mile, there is a measurement from Antiquity called a Mil which when using based on the paces of a soldier marching for a 20 min period, and that is where it comes from. The day format comes from old British where when written out they would write "February the 14th in the year 2024", and when written out numerical would be 2/14/2024, and we kept that system.

By the way, in the UK we still use Feet and Inches, Stone and Pounds and Miles

The US Army taught me day month year but they also taught me the Julian calendar, which is year day with no month and with only the last digit of the year. So there!

What isn't included is the pint = 20fl oz, or in the US 16fl oz.

Other countries mix metric and imperial (hello from the UK), several countries that are not the USA use MDY, and most of the world uses YMD.

I think the best date format is year/month/day. If you sort a bunch of files by name, and they are named that way, you'll get them in date order. Any other way, and you won't get them in date order when sorting (if you're not using a date field to sort by).

Banana for scale...

Even though here in the UK we are metric because I am over 40 I still only gauge peoples height and weight in feet and stones

but but but… the rest of the world is doing it wrong… ita hard, can’t understand this system… its no accurate… our system is the best… etc etc 😀😀😀

I love the metric system, but why didn't anyone fix time while they were at it? Still, it was lucky that a day worked out to be exactly 24 hours. (sarcasm)

Dates are easiest to sort in YEAR-MONTH-DAY format: 2024-02-14, for example. So when I have files that are saved by date that's how I enter them so they can be sorted easily.

Ridiculous, they should change

I prefer year/month/day, as follows: 2024.2.14

And we call football soccer even though the term came from the UK

At least US dates sort correctly if they're all in the same year. Your "better" system is the option that sorts the absolute worst. Year-Month-Day is the only good option and anyone who uses it can measure in roods or Toyotas per football field for all I care.

It’s such a backwards way of measuring…