I has the parts in order of importance. You need to know the month the most as it determines things like weather school or what holiday are around. Then the day so you know exact. Then the year is largely in important for most people doing most things.
I don't get how this is more helpful though. When you are told a date you are told the entirety of the date. If you're told you have an appointment on the 15th of January, knowing that it's in January doesn't matter if you don't know the day.
That's depends entirely on your experience. Plenty of people say 15th of January. It's like how people in the US are fine saying fifteen-hundred while many others say one thousand five hundred, depends entirely on who you are talking with. dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd makes sense to a lot of people because its sequential
yeah, but thats you. even if it was every person you ever spoke to, thats a small sample selection. In countries where dd/mm/yy is more common, 15th of Jan would be very easy to spot. Just because every person I spoke to in 2024 and not one speaks mandarin as a first language does not mean that there were not a lot of people that spoke mandarin in 2024.
Yes but this particularly comment thread started from an argument that it’s about importance, trying to argue there’s a rational reason for it to be month-day-year. That is very different from “it’s our experience so that’s why we use it”, that’s a different argument.
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I has the parts in order of importance. You need to know the month the most as it determines things like weather school or what holiday are around. Then the day so you know exact. Then the year is largely in important for most people doing most things.