Fuck, idiots care about our DATE FORMAT.

[u/EmperorSnake1]

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[u/Kevroeques]

This really is the ultimate flattery. The way I type the date has a huge psychological impact on people I will never even think about

[u/N0va-Zer0 → u/Kevroeques]

You have no idea. Lived in England for a little more than 10 years I think if they didn't have us to obssess over, they'd already be in another world war. That, and our contribution to NATO.

[u/SuperBread7924 → u/[deleted]]

“well at LEASHT our SHKEWLS…”

[u/Key-Pomegranate-3507 → u/[deleted]]

You’re talking a lot of shit for someone who can get arrested for mean tweets

[u/Bulky-Permission-281 → u/[deleted]]

Brother your response to talking about date formats is to talk about children being murdered. you’re being downvoted because that’s straight evil. It’s also a tired talking point, like bringing up acid crimes in the U.K.

[u/Automatic-Platform79 → u/[deleted]]

good job Reddit man. Well constructed Redditor.

[u/Automatic-Platform79 → u/[deleted]]

bro get offline

[u/PeterWayneGaskill → u/Kevroeques]

There is a Canadian YouTuber that had a fit about our imperial measurements and date format a while back, and let me tell you, it was both sad and hilarious. I don’t remember his channel’s name, but whatever. I’m not losing sleep over it.

[u/LeResist]

Our date format makes sense when you are speaking December 12th, 2024. Month/Date/Year. You can say 12th of December 2024 but that's more words. Regardless it's a date format. These people get triggered by Americans breathing air

[u/urbanoideisto → u/LeResist]

Well yeah, Amerikkka doesn't even have super duper crazy mega high speed awesome rail so it's basically a third world country, and it is also responsible for every military conflict in the universe and you as a single citizen are solely responsible for that, therefore you shouldn't have the luxury of breathing air!

[u/therealdrewder → u/LeResist]

It also makes more sense if you're filing. You wouldn't want to file primarily by the day, month is far more useful.

[u/Cryptomartin1993 → u/therealdrewder]

Iso8601 is the only good datetime standard, both the standard American and European suck, year first, then month, then day - descending orders are king for sorting

[u/therealdrewder → u/Cryptomartin1993]

Except years are too big. Months are really the important factor when you're putting things in a file cabinet. It's easy enough to put a year divider

[u/NarrowAd4973 → u/Cryptomartin1993]

This is what we use where I work for the dates for the printers on the packing machines. Since these are medical devices, and it's printing the expiration date, I have to assume the medical industry also uses that system.

[u/RIPBOZOBEEBO]

I hate people like this. Swap the two placements in your head and shut the fuck up. Please don't whine about it.

[u/janky_koala → u/RIPBOZOBEEBO]

You can’t always just guess. Say I’m going to NYC on 02/06/2025, what clothing do I pack?

I work for a multinational company, it’s annoying and requires constant verification, but you just deal with it or write the months as words.

[u/HeroBromine35 → u/janky_koala]

Do YYYY-MM-DD, simple as

[u/janky_koala → u/HeroBromine35]

Yeah, if everyone did that it would be fantastic. That’s my point.

[u/HotCartographer5239]

They act like we do  some subliminal date format 💀 

[u/EmperorSnake1]

People thinking they have the right to correct us, on pretty much everything we do, really makes me question that education system they boast about.

[u/Miserable_Wonder_891 → u/EmperorSnake1]

I live in the UK and some computers are set to the US format and we are used to it. It’s silly of people to complain when it’s so simple to switch two numbers. 🤷‍♀️ Same with a 24 he clock, just +/- 12 hrs. Simple. But people love to complain.

[u/Zixuit]

If I had a dime for every time I heard someone on Reddit complain about the American date format or system of measurement I’d be able to subsidize Europe’s military so they can afford free healthcare.

[u/The_Grizzly-]

33rd Anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union?

[u/arjay22]

This one annoys me more than anything because our format makes more sense.

1-12 (months) smallest amount first / 1-31 (days) 2nd smallest amount / 1900-1999 or written as 00-99 (years) largest amount

It goes from smallest to largest and also makes sense when saying it aloud. December 24, 2024.

[u/Dneail22 → u/arjay22]

Others say 24th of December, 2024

[u/arjay22 → u/Dneail22]

You don't have to add an extra word (of) when using American format. Its more simple and easy to vocalize

[u/Dneail22 → u/arjay22]

Yeah I guess others prefer one way and some prefer another

[u/arcxjo]

ISO 8601 or GTFO.

[u/Decent_Cow]

There are 12 months in a year, 28-31 days in a month, and 100 years in a century. Americans write the date from smallest to largest. Don't understand what's so irrational about that.

[u/bigbootyjudy62]

I like americas system because it’s so much easier for organization to have month first instead of year

[u/DingDonFiFI]

They must live a charmed life

[u/ThePickleConnoisseur]

Europeans when we use a format based on language and how we say it and not for efficacy or becomes it looks nice since we are humans and not machines

[u/janky_koala → u/ThePickleConnoisseur]

Do you think there’s a chance you say it that way because that’s how it written?

[u/ThePickleConnoisseur → u/janky_koala]

No. Language always comes before writing. People who say the x day of y month will write it that way

[u/janky_koala → u/ThePickleConnoisseur]

Like the Fourth of July?

[u/ThePickleConnoisseur → u/janky_koala]

Order is switched up to illustrate the importance of the day. Idk why people always point to one or two outliers like that changes anything

[u/Bad_Spacegodzilla]

Don't know how you can be so hardpressed about dates. This goes for OP and the guy who insulted the American date format. Like let people be people, and if someone insults something so small why get so angry?

[u/arjay22 → u/Bad_Spacegodzilla]

What makes you think OP is "so angry"? They're posting a picture that is related to the sub. They're legit using the sub as intended. Looks like they didn't even downvote or reply in the screenshot they posted. Idk how you came to the conclusion that they are "hard pressed" or "so angry"

[u/Bad_Spacegodzilla → u/arjay22]

Calling someone an idiot seems like something an angry person would do. But I digress. Maybe he wasn't angry. Personally, I wouldn't call a person an idiot off the whim for being annoying if I wasn't angry.

[u/BigMaraJeff2]

So let's say you have a filing cabinet, sorting paperwork by dates. Are you going to have 31 folders or 12?

[u/janky_koala → u/BigMaraJeff2]

That doesn’t make any sense Jeff

[u/Imreallynotfunny442]

RENTTTT FREEEEEE

[u/identify_as_AH-64]

In the Army they make us write dates on paperwork in two different ways. For example : 2024, Dec 26 or 20241226.

[u/Composite-Redd1232]

If I remember it is based on some biblical text (OT)  that format around the day/month/year of current king of the area which the text refers. 

We just don't do the king portion. 

[u/Johnnie-Runner]

I (as a European) could not care less about date formats and units in other countries as it barely touches myself. However, I guess many people feel triggered, if one country (or a few) claim to have found the holy grail telling others (the majority) how great that is, just as driving on the left side of the street. It’s just somehow reciprocal.

The only really “superior” format in my opinion is the ISO 8601 one when it comes to sorting documents etc., but it seems that it only adopted for everyday use in China, Corea and Japan.

[u/MincedFrenchfries]

69/69/69...what...

[u/mobodoebo]

Out voted tho lol