Why is American date display retarded? - Month/Day/Year

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Do Americans also write time as Hour:Second:Minute?

 

[PositiveMonk]

It follows a concise way of speaking, "February 21st 2025" is more concise than "The 21st of February 2025".

 

[Vernon Dozier]

Why do foreign cucks use Celsius? Fahrenheit is better 0 very cold 100 very hot.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Like most things we do, we do it to bother the rest of the world.

 

[Spud]

Surely it would be Minute:Second:Hour.

 

[A Cat in a Minefield]

Why do foreign cucks use Celsius? Fahrenheit is better 0 very cold 100 very hot.

0 is also cold and 100 is hot. Fahrenheit is a derivative from Celcius anyways. Your imaginary unit has no value, child.

 

[WE'RE ALL GONNA]

Also fuck miles and foots which are derivative of a faggot king Massive waste of time and prone to billions of dollars wasted from people forgetting to convert it

NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.

SWALLOW WHATEVER MEANINGLESS PRIDE YOU HOLD ONTO AND CONCEDE YOUR IMPERIAL SYSTEM YOU DUMB BURGER WHALES

 

[We Are The Witches]

Why do foreign cucks use Celsius? Fahrenheit is better 0 very cold 100 very hot.

What are you talking about? Do realize that what you say works for Celsius as well?

It also works well when you consider the temperature of water and its effect/state based on that, loosely (freezing and boiling points, which may be slightly altered under other conditions but that are not needed to be considered for normal day-to-day life).

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What I like is the usual (ISO 8601), YYYY-MM-DD and hh:mm:ss because it's clear, from more to less (left to right), and so changing every second inversely, from the right to the left, how it is normally in digital clocks.

There is a Reddit thread about OP's question on that.

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If I had to assume something, it may be because that format (month/day/year) is more efficient for certain cases, maybe trials? So by looking at the date, you'd get and state the most important information faster (the month), and compare easily.

So "Mr. Smith robbed this person on March, 21 of 2025, and drove without a license on April, 2 of 2025", that way you easily know how apart these incidents are from each other, instead of starting with the day, which is not relevant when you want the "big picture", and for the same reason, the year is last because in this case it will most likely be the easiest info to infer or remember.

Now you know and remember that Mr. Smith first robbed someone at the beginning of this year, then drove without a license roughly a month after, and when you state both dates, the emphasis may fall on the first item (the month).

This is wild speculation, but it kind of works for the example I'm trying to convey, just a theory.

 

[Moths]

The American is instinctually afraid of logical concepts such as ascending and descending order and will descend into layers of madness to avoid using them.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Months have least amount of options being 12 days Has the second most with 28-31 and Year limitless.

 

[Axiom.]

It's better than yours.

 

[dick brain]

Because when a machine sorts them for me I want it to group all the things pertaining to February, not all the things that happened on the 21st day of each month. Year-month-day is even better.

0 is also cold and 100 is hot. Fahrenheit is a derivative from Celcius anyways. Your imaginary unit has no value, child.

Below 0F = you will die.
Above 100F = you will die.
In between 0F and 100F = you will probably survive.
~50F = comfy. <50F = cold. >50F = warm.
Celcius is optimal for water. I am not water.

Also fuck miles and foots which are derivative of a faggot king Massive waste of time and prone to billions of dollars wasted from people forgetting to convert it


SWALLOW WHATEVER MEANINGLESS PRIDE YOU HOLD ONTO AND CONCEDE YOUR IMPERIAL SYSTEM YOU DUMB BURGER WHALES

My foot is a foot long. A mile is ~1000 paces. My thumb is an inch wide. If I'm averaging 60mph, I can expect a trip to take as many minutes as miles. These units have heuristic value. Not my fault you're a manlet.

Metric and celcius are for lab experiments. Freedom units are for real life.

 

[Raven of the Burning God]

Most useful/relevant information first for most contexts.

If you're talking about immediate/near-term plans with someone you would most likely omit the month and just talk about the day of the month (or perhaps even just the day of the week). If you're talking about far off plans, you might just use the year. For the bulk of planning that falls between those two extremes, month-first gives you the quickest handle on how far off it is.

If we have plans on 20250622, I don't really need to keep in mind that it's on the 22nd until it's near-term, and I might have plans tomorrow, or in March, April, or May that also fall on the 22nd... or maybe not, like I said, I'm probably not going to remember the exact date of plans until they're imminent. Starting with the day doesn't actually narrow down what plans you're talking about until you specify June... and why are you talking to me about plans months from now with such specificity? It's like asking "Are we still meeting at 5pm?" "What? Did we have plans at 5pm?" "On the 22nd!" "Oh. Tomorrow? I must've forgotten." "No, silly American, 5pm 22 June!" "Uh-huh... This year?"

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Imagine keeping the date by using some made up Gregorian calendar. Just go off the cycles of the moon like a normal human.

 

[CornBogFitz]

If I had to guess it’s because back in the day our neighbors weren’t a chicken pissising assshake away like in puny Europe. Letters took several months to reach their destination. Making the month more received more vital. But that’s just a guess

Just looked up the answer. It’s because for legal dates and newspapers the month was the more immediate important part. But also America had a date format before Brit bongs so we still win.

 

[SandyCat]

Above 100F = you will die.

It gets up to 116F where I live and I'm still alive but every summer I wish I was dead.

 

[dick brain]

It gets up to 116F where I live and I'm still alive but every summer I wish I was dead.

Sorry I should have specified it's in reference to white people.

 

[SandyCat]

Sorry I should have specified it's in reference to white people.

I am white tho. I live in a urbanized desert hellscape in the US

But you're not wrong about the dying part we lose people out here every year from heatstroke

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

You have to put a man on the moon before you can criticize the American system.

 

[ForgedBlades]

As an Amerifag I readily concede that metric is overall superior to imperial, but as someone who has worked with it in both industrial and scientific settings, Celsius gets it shit kicked in by Fahrenheit in every conceivable way.