2024, June 12.
Why isn't the long form like this as well? Especially since the year is the most important info anyway when it comes to things like studying history.
Actually, on second thought, computers would organize things by alphabetical order this way which would seem weird.
Because precise dates are used much more commonly contemporaneously than they are for historical purposes. This is so true that the year is commonly omitted, as it is assumed and understood by all parties without mention.
You don't need the comma when you write it this way. The comma in June 12, 2024, is there exactly because it's the wrong order.
It's basically "I wrote the date. Oops, forgot the year!"
Computers order it correctly in that format because that's the correct format. In the same way a computer will order any other correctly formatted numbers in the correct order - and incorrectly formatted numbers in the incorrect order - it shouldn't be surprising that they order correctly formatted dates in the correct order.
I figure it's because the year can be seen as an optional appendage if you're talking about dates from the current year. Like, I can say "that happened on May 5th," or "I'll be there June 18th," and you can reasonably assume I mean in 2024 unless I specify "June 18th, 2063."
Now, as for why you can say "I'm going on the 18th," but Americans don't say 18th of June, 2024, I haven't a clue. We really only seem to have logical explanations for the way we do things about half of the time.
Half dozen, dozen, two dozen in the US.
It finally paid off! Today is the day our system makes sense!
Thank you for this. I'm going to use it at work.
And in the mm/dd/yy format it's also 2x ascending.
It's the only way.
The way almost everyone else does it - Americans, Europeans, etc - is just wrong.
Oh sorry, my point was that East Asia does it YYYY-MM-DD, with the exception of maybe some different delimiter and leading zeros depending on preference, they already coincidentally do it the ISO way!
GOD DAMNIT! For the first time, the stupid American date format is more interesting.
6/12/24
Everyone arguing about date formats, yet no one yelling about a dozen being an outdated measurement because it's not base 10.
Oh no, a dozen eggs used to be β¬ 1,09 here, about 9 cent per egg. Now ten eggs are β¬ 2,89, about 29 cent per egg. The world isn't fair.
12 is a far superior number to 10. It is sacrilege that we started using 10 instead of 12.
People already have problems comprehending orders of magnitude with base 10. At base 12 things would only be worse.
If anything we should go binary to better understand the difference between a billion and a million. π₯Έ
I really don't think the problem with people not understanding large numbers has anything to do with the base. It's just lots of people not having a good maths education.
The future is now old man! Ditch your antiquated base 10 numbering system and embrace the future of hexadecimal!