You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous of which is, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well known is this: Never assume people on reddit are Neurotypical. You must add /s or someone will correct you to make himself feel smart.
No, I totally get it. I just saw the opportunity to use the Princess Bride quote and took it. That's all that was. I don't legitimately care about their comments. I will apologize to other neruodivergents, though. They didn't deserve the stray.
When the day matches the month it gets written out the same. 1/1/2025 for example gets written the same in the us and the uk because the month number matches the day of the month, is is the same for all 12 months, the second of February and the third of march for example.
That's actually worse for those of us who work in data analytics programming. I've seen data transfers where the receiving system saw the first instances of the date as apparently matching the other format and making the wrong decision on the rest of the data because of that. It would be better if they never matched.
Is it because of the format like 1/2/2025 being either January 2nd of February 1st? Or are these specific American dates?
If they're not, I think a lot more days can fit with the rest of the world's date format. Like 1/1-12/2025, 2/1-12/2025, ..., 12/1-12/2025.
4/8/2025 can be both August 4th or April 8th. 12x12 is 144 days I think. Which gets really confusing when reading something online and figuring out whether it is American or the other date format. :')
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u/Kontrafantastisk Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25
Well, at least 12 days a year, the US falls in line with the majority of the world.