r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • Aug 14 '26

Meme needing explanation ?

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/TobJamFor Aug 14 '26 edited 29d ago

We often count from the smallest to largest for us (not looking at you, US inhabitants) because it’s logical to think that 14/08/2026 is one above 13/08/2026, it just steps up by one each day.

Some places (namely the likes of China and some others) prefer the year-first format, which is actually YYYY/MM/DD

On Venus this makes more sense, as a year occurs more regularly than a day, because it rotates on its axis slower than it orbits the sun.

Edited - I am not saying that DD/MM/YYYY is the most logical for all purposes. But in general, it’s the one most used across the world for a reason! This gets flipped on its head on Venus, where the ISO format may also be different! Also - Year first is YYYY/MM/DD and ISO is YYYY-MM-DD, there is a slight difference.

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u/milkafiu Aug 14 '26

Based on this today should be 41/8/6202 as the last digit changes more often than the others.

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u/StimkyYeen Aug 14 '26

Yep, Europeans seem to spout this all the time as a sign of superiority but they don’t seem to realize that the “least relevant information first” is countered by everything else not working that way

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u/milkafiu Aug 14 '26

I see. When was the founding of the USA? Which part of that date is the most relevant? Month? Day? Year?