Don’t go with this psycho! He mixes European style order with US style punctuation.
US style punctation?
I mean slashes
/instead of colons.That’s not a colon. Both are commonly in use in Europe. USA just switched the d/m
Is it really switching if that was the way it was traditionally done and they just kept doing it that way?
I think it was primarily a verbal ordering, that later became commonplace written down in the US. If it was written down in that order elsewhere, it would have been with the full text, ie. “July 4th, 1776”. Never something like “07/04/1776”, which I believe was an American invention.
But wouldn’t that just be an extension of the way of doing things, though? If I’m used to writing “July 4th, 1776”, I wouldn’t start writing “04/07/1776” when that format picked up (which, as I understand things, didn’t really become a widespread norm until computers).
Unless I’m misunderstanding you, of course (always possible).
I think written abbreviated it was always eg. 4 Jul 1776, 4.7.1776 in Europe (UK/France/Germany)
For consistency, Americans should adopt mm:ss.hh MM-DD-YYYY.
For consistency, Europeans should adopt ss:mm:hh DD-MM-YYYY.
See how ridiculous that is? ISO8601 or GTFO
The european one is sorted based on importance to see. The day is more important than the month which is more important than the year. The hour is more important than the minute which is more important than the second
But in any given situation where the month is important enough that I need to know it, I want to know the month regardless of the day. The 25th means fuck all to me unless I know the month, as well; whereas there are plenty of scenarios where I want to know the month but the day isn’t quite as important.
