Marioface5: I think the reason for the difference in how people list dates has to do with how one thinks about it. A year is longer than a month, which is longer than a day. Thinking of it that way, D/M/Y makes sense. However, another way of looking at it is that there's an indefinite amount of years, up to 31 days in a month, and only 12 months in a year. With that viewpoint, M/D/Y makes more sense.
GabiMoro: No, it doesn`t. A month is still a variable (1 to 12) so what's the point?
The main problem with putting the day before the month is increased cognitive load and it breaking sort algorithms. When I'm confronted with MM/DD for posts, I immediately know whether they happened close to each other or far away. If, I'm confronted with DD/MM, then I have to ignore the first number to look at the second. Then I have to go back to the first number. It's a lot of unnecessary work.
Obviously, people get used to it, but it's sub-optimal.
djranis: lol americans, always wanted to be different, color, miles, football(they use their bloody hands)
GabiMoro: Aren`t miles, pounds, gallons used in Canada too?
Thread officially derailed.
Both Canadians and Americans have this sort of fucked up system where metric has crept in on certain things. The Canadian government has been forcing the issue, gas is now sold in metric quantities, which wasn't the case that long ago.
Road signs are all metric, my brother bought a car from Canada and not only was the metric prominent, it didn't even have MPH on there. Which makes no sense as nearly all Canadians live within an hour or two of the border with the US. In the US our speedometers always have both imperial and metric measures in case we want to drive outside the US.
