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.

[–] MKBandit@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because who cares what day it is without knowing the month first.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Who cares what month it is without knowing the year first

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social -1 points 2 years ago

Day/month/year is not in the same category as y/m/d. That crap is so ambiguous. Is today August 9th? Or September 8th? Y/m/d to the rescue.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago (2 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 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com -1 points 2 years 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

[–] Windows2000Srv@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago

I'm not an American and English isn't my first language, so the US way to write dates always confused me. Now, I finally understand it! Many thanks, this is legitimately sooooo useful!