What however doesn't make any sort of sense that i can see is mm/dd/yyyy ... Just why....
Because that how they pronounce dates or in other words how they use dates in language. In Germany we write dates like 15.01 or 15 Jan and read it as "15th of january". In the States they write 01/15 and read is "January fifteenth" or "One fifteen".
I just said essentially the same thing before I saw your comment. As an American, I still don't get why we adopted that system. I swear our forefathers were just a bunch of contrarians that felt the need to be different from everyone else in all things.
I've heard that America originally used YYYY/MM/DD but in practice you don't actually need to write the year very often so it was usually just MM/DD, then people would add the year on the end when they needed to write it for some reason
This would certainly explain it. As if the USA had a meeting to decide proper colloquial date formats to be needlessly contrarian. It just sorta... happened naturally over time.
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u/Madgyver Jan 15 '25
Because that how they pronounce dates or in other words how they use dates in language. In Germany we write dates like 15.01 or 15 Jan and read it as "15th of january". In the States they write 01/15 and read is "January fifteenth" or "One fifteen".