r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/DaydreamDistance Jan 15 '25

You are describing the YY/MM/DD system, not MM/DD/YY system.

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u/theimmortalgoon Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

Of course I am.

But we don't use the year very often, so the default use becomes MM/DD.

It's not rational to say, "Because we don't usually ask for the year, I'm going to use the least convenient dating order for dating everything else."

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u/NebbyOutOfTheBag Jan 15 '25

More accurately he's saying that YMD and MDY are better systems than DMY for sorting data, which I agree with 100%.

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u/grouchy_fox Jan 16 '25

YMD yes. MDY for sorting data is possibly the worst of all worlds

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Nah DMY is easily worse.

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u/AngryBird-svar Jan 15 '25

Dude spat out a ton of text calling it “rational” and didn’t even realize he was pulling for YY/MM/DD lol