Not "many people." Americans. Americans find it hard to read. I'm not 100% sure but I'm fairly certain everyone else in the world agrees that either day/month/year or year/month/day is the best way to clearly indicate a date. You know, because big to small. America believes month/day/year for some stupid fucking reason.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm pretty sure it's because of the way we say it. Like, "May 6th, 2023". So we write it 5/6/2023.

That said, I think it's fucking stupid.

[–] Kurroth@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yer, just like the most important day for the seppos... The 4th of July...

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I will never stop being impressed by the absolute insanity that is British rhyming slang. Apparently I've never heard seppo before, short for septic tank, rhyming with Yank. I just learned a new mildy derogatory term for Americans, nice

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