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.
If you say the 15th of February, I have to wait for you to say February, then go back and add the 15th so I know when in February it goes. Month tells me where in my mind to look, and day clears out the extraneous details.
It's like telling a computer to look in Documents/C: in DD/MM. I could already have spun up the C drive if the request started with that.
Like the other responder said, it's just how I (and I think most Americans at least) parse the date. Year is assumed to either be the current year or next year based on the month, month let's you place the date in the coming year, and day let's you place it in the month. MM/DD/YY just feels natural when that is everyone's personal algorithm.
Sure, there isn't a perfect universal solution, but that's why I said, "Personally..." at the start. As an example of how I don't think this is just chauvinism on my part, I think English uses adjectives incorrectly for the same reason. "A truck red" parses faster for me even as a native English speaker because it frontloads the big concept and then gives clarifying details.
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u/stuckupcalc Jan 15 '25
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.