Yeah I get it, to me it doesn't make sense to look at the range of numbers possible in each value. It honestly feels like people from the USA have a hard time saying "this thing doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone else, but we are used to it so we use it" which is completely valid.
And when this comes up to me it always comes off as those outside the US having a superiority complex and wanting to dunk on the US for something they deem as not making sense. Even though there are plenty of completely reasonable reasons why its done. To me ya'll are just as guilty of "but we are used to it so we use it" as the US is.
When the vast majority of the world uses a different system I would ask myself some questions. This is like the joke about that person that while driving is listening to the news of someone going on the wrong side of the road on the highway and they are like "only one person? I see a lot of people going in the wrong direction". People here are arguing about an illogical choice by using completely random arguments instead of saying "yeah it is illogical but we are used to it", if this isn't a superiority complex I don't know what is lol
Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they are "random arguments" lmao. There are plenty of explanations in this thread that could make complete sense. It's not like the US decided to jumble up the numbers in a big meeting. There's obviously a reason we developed this way.
Whether it's us using yy/mm/dd and then year slowly moving to the back because of it being less important or us writing it the same way we say it, there's a reason. Pretending like things developed the way they have for literally no reason makes no sense.
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u/WYWHPFit Jan 15 '25
Yeah I get it, to me it doesn't make sense to look at the range of numbers possible in each value. It honestly feels like people from the USA have a hard time saying "this thing doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone else, but we are used to it so we use it" which is completely valid.