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I've never understood this, because doesn't it make sense that it would go shortest, middle, longest edit: longest to shortest makes a lot of sense as well

I lived in London in 1990-1991. After learning how they write dates, I couldn't understand why the US didn't. It makes so much more sense

So everyone else does it wrong 😂

Drives me crazier than I already am, and I'm from there.

DD-YYYY-MM is the best ;)

Eh, I prefer it that way.

American here and I think it's dumb. Why say the month so much?

I usually use YYYY-MM-DD since it makes sorting easy.

Only thing I like about the date format is when used as the start of a document name, computer system stores in date order.

As an American, I don't see anything wrong with this...

Why put the day number first? The same numbered days are in nearly every month. The month is clarified before the day.

Whatever you’re familiar with what you think is best, if you live in Europe, and you want the year first, and that’s normal for you, most people in the US don’t think that way.

I think it's about words. You can say March first, Nineteen-Eighty-Seven, or on the first day of March in Nineteen-Eighty-Seven. Maybe it had to do with the cost of parchment, ink, and quills. My guess is it was about saving money and time.

Like several other comments have pointed out, it’s based on how we talk. I can understand why it can be confusing to non-Americans though.

That and their stupid non metric system

as an american can i say, me too. i didnt get it when we learned it in gradeschool, never got anything like a sensible explanation. but as a way out-numbered kid? you go along with it. its still dumb

Its weird that Americans are saying MM-DD-YY 'makes no sense'. It literally matches how we verbalize dates. That may not be the original reason for the format but it pretty obviously makes sense as to why we're using it.

American here. I totally get the logic of: shortest-to-longest, but it makes sense “conversationally…” If you were to remember an event, you might remember that it was in March… then maybe the middle, like the 15th. Um.. Then the year…? F**k I just realized you’d probable home in on the year first. So longest-to-shortest makes sense. Or the opposite. Nevermind. Americana be wrong.

DD MMM YYYY in some professions though

It's just the way we say things. We would say December 3rd, rather than 3rd December.

This is definitely a weird one for the rest of the world

I live in the US and it makes NO SENSE.

If your working with computer files named with the date then it makes sense because it puts them in order of date by month.

Honestly it's what I was raised using and I like it. I don't see the big deal honestly

When you say a date out loud, do you say "December 3rd, 2022", or do you say "3rd December, 2022"? First one sounds better to me, and that's why Americans do MM-DD-YYYY. Seems reasonable, right?

It should always be year / month / date.

The company I work for is Canadian and we use that system. Now, it's a company based in Montreal, so maybe its just the French being French. /j

Just makes the most sense (but not if I grew up in another country) 😏😉

If you write MMDDYYYY (US style), the dates will arrange in order numerically and chronologically -- much easier to arrange computer files, etc. in chronological order than if you use European style. Then again, Bored Panda will never admit that the US does anything sensibly, so i didn't expect anyone to point this out.

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I have this conversation with my bf from Germany at least once every other month. Mm/DD/yyyy makes sense not just from the way we say the date out loud but when you read a calendar you flip to the month first then look for the day. Imagine if you tired to read a calendar by the day first. Madness.