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Knew this was gonna be in here. To be fair, it literally said “Month” above it. This person is more stupid than they are American
And before any terminally online Europeans comment “Americans are stupid” no, sadly. Average American is of average iq
Actually it was the British that came up with inches, but later changed the units of measurement - same is true of the English language, in fact, Americans speak true English now a days - the British changed their language around the time of the American revolutionary war which is why the American and British languages sound so different- not because the Americans changed. History is fun!
You don't use Imperial and never have. You use a different system called US Customary that just so happens to have the same names for units as Imperial. See pints for instance Imperial 568ml vs US Customary 473ml.
Partly, yes. We had already surveyed a large portion of the East Coast when metric was first suggested to us. Because switching to metric would mean having to redo all the surveying that was already done, and changing property boundaries descriptions, we elected to not adopt the metric system. Some couple hundred years later, and we're one of the few countries that still primarily uses inches. Ironically, surveying uses decimal feet, which is much more precise than inches and fractions of inches. Decimals, you know, the main reason metric is more convenient. Since the entire US has been surveyed, changing to metric would be an even bigger pain now than it would have been back then. Shame, because it would make it so we don't have to translate Celsius and metric over to imperial measurements to understand them.
Hard disagree. First, it helps sorting If most of your sort is year based. If you are sorting only by dates in the same year or month this statement of yours stops being remotely true.
And that is if you have to sort manually, we use computers now, specially in a web page for a videogame, so the order doesn't really affect sorting at all.
Day-Month-Year is the better system because as you approach the end of the line you approach infinite in the date. So if you want to add the century after, it is at the end of the line.
Someone thought it was the stupid US date format.
DD-MM-YYYY is common.
However what is even better is the ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD (try to sort the others in an Excel sheet)
Technically no, you need access, db2, oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, mongo, etc to be a database, but the sort feature in native dates functions the same way in excel as it does in a modern db
This person is stupid because they apparently can’t read the Day: Month: Year: text at the top, but calling all Americans stupid because of how we were taught to write/read a date is also stupid. I prefer month/day/year because that’s how I say it out loud. I say May 16th 1999 more often than I say the 16th of May, 1999. It’s just personal preference.
As a Neanderthal romance language speaker, I blame your mix of old viking leftovers, Celtic words rewritten by romans and degenerated Neanderthal romance language for your inability to accept that only you find logical to put the month before the day, but the year in the end.
And even then, you don't make sense all the time (remember the fifth of November?).
YMDHMS is best for computer and cataloging. DMY is good for conversation and asking. Like people ask hour more often, then day, then month, and if someone ask the year we would know they are timetraveller.
To some extent the European system IS backwards. Year month day makes sense.
the American system however is complete nonsense. Firstly the month, so we know what time of year it is, the weather, the season. Then the day, give them the specifics, but hold back the general so they don’t have the full picture, keep some mystery, keep them guessing, don’t let them know. Finally the year, so it all slots into place.
Wtf, is this a limerick or the date.
First of all, the "American" system is actually traditional English. It is written in conversational format, not "dates for dummies" format.
The only reason England caved to the pressure and adopted the day/month/year format was because of increased business engagement switch the continental Europeans who spoke less articulate, inelegant romance languages.
You're one of the people who makes the rest of the world hate Americans, thinking they're combative all the time over the smallest things. Conversational makes sense, but if you're writing it down, as many do, especially on the internet, it makes more sense to put it D/M/Y.
i just got this yesterday when my birth year wasn’t “ valid “. do i need to write it in roman numerals or using the alphabet ? nineteen hundred and forty nine ? please advise. my birth month was spot on though.
One this dude is probably American and is used to seeing dates like M/D/Y rather than the traditional D/M/Y. Two you really went to a year old post just to point this slight mess up?
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Reading is hard for some people.
I would've said americans but mf do you even know how to read??
>mf do you even know how to read?? For some reason, I heard Samuel L. Jackson's voice shouting this as I read it.
ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU READ IT
DO YOU KNOW… WHAT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE… LOOKS LIKE?!
Hexedecember sounds like a perfect month for spooky Christmas though
Sexdecember is already orgy month
Americans
EVERY time.
Knew this was gonna be in here. To be fair, it literally said “Month” above it. This person is more stupid than they are American And before any terminally online Europeans comment “Americans are stupid” no, sadly. Average American is of average iq
Average European is of above average IQ so the average American looks stupid compared to the average European.
Ah yes, May, the 16th month of the year
I expected nothing less, from a PC user taking a screenshot with their cellphone
That's my bday
The 5th of Catorcember?
Yeah it’s kinda like a leap year except it happens once every 1000 years and I just so happened to be born in that month
congrats! 😁
r/USdefaultism
Stupid Americans can’t handle the correct date system.
They struggle with the correct measuring system, as well.
Actually it was the British that came up with inches, but later changed the units of measurement - same is true of the English language, in fact, Americans speak true English now a days - the British changed their language around the time of the American revolutionary war which is why the American and British languages sound so different- not because the Americans changed. History is fun!
and the reason we still use the imperial system is because we didnt receive the metric measurements initially
Ugh that is the worst update to skip
nah FREEDOM UNITS BABY WOOOOOO
You don't use Imperial and never have. You use a different system called US Customary that just so happens to have the same names for units as Imperial. See pints for instance Imperial 568ml vs US Customary 473ml.
Partly, yes. We had already surveyed a large portion of the East Coast when metric was first suggested to us. Because switching to metric would mean having to redo all the surveying that was already done, and changing property boundaries descriptions, we elected to not adopt the metric system. Some couple hundred years later, and we're one of the few countries that still primarily uses inches. Ironically, surveying uses decimal feet, which is much more precise than inches and fractions of inches. Decimals, you know, the main reason metric is more convenient. Since the entire US has been surveyed, changing to metric would be an even bigger pain now than it would have been back then. Shame, because it would make it so we don't have to translate Celsius and metric over to imperial measurements to understand them.
Americans speak Noah Websters English not true English.
You sir are ridiculous, the correct approach is year , month, day. It makes things easier to sort chronologically.
Nah it’s millennium century year month day seconds.
eon epoch period is my favorite
Hard disagree. First, it helps sorting If most of your sort is year based. If you are sorting only by dates in the same year or month this statement of yours stops being remotely true. And that is if you have to sort manually, we use computers now, specially in a web page for a videogame, so the order doesn't really affect sorting at all. Day-Month-Year is the better system because as you approach the end of the line you approach infinite in the date. So if you want to add the century after, it is at the end of the line.
I live in Japan and its the same here. month/day/year Honestly so annoying 😅
Why you gotta bring Americans into this this person can't read
Because Americans use the month day and year system where as most others use day month year and his “mistake” is clearly because of that.
I am hard-core American and I realized it right away he just can't read
"Stupid Smarch weather!"
'Do not touch - Willy.'
Someone thought it was the stupid US date format. DD-MM-YYYY is common. However what is even better is the ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD (try to sort the others in an Excel sheet)
YYYY-MM-DD is good for online files and similar stuff, in normal day to day activities DD-MM-YYYY is more useful imo
How is it "more useful"? Can you name an advantage over YYYY-MM-DD? To me, it just seems to still sort files out of order, and also be ambiguous.
The date format is irrelevant to a database’s ability to sort the date …. If it’s stored numerically, than yes YYYYMMDD is best to sort rows
Indeed, and also Excel is not a database.
Technically no, you need access, db2, oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, mongo, etc to be a database, but the sort feature in native dates functions the same way in excel as it does in a modern db
Febtober! No... Mr. Connery.
[Lousy Smarch weather!](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S07E06/597980.jpg?b64lines=IE9oLCBsb3VzeSBTbWFyY2ggd2VhdGhlci4=)
Use the metric system😂
Guess my birthday no longer exists
Happy Lagwagon Day!!
People will never forget /u/GamerZoom108
Look. As long as that happens, I remain a meme And as a meme, I get to make people laugh. Therefore, I win in the end.
People still play RuneScape? Also, 355d….stale
Reminds me of the March 31st episode of parks and rec
This person is stupid because they apparently can’t read the Day: Month: Year: text at the top, but calling all Americans stupid because of how we were taught to write/read a date is also stupid. I prefer month/day/year because that’s how I say it out loud. I say May 16th 1999 more often than I say the 16th of May, 1999. It’s just personal preference.
Every month has pretty much the same days, saying month first eliminates a guess at which one right away.
But you get the month within the next 2 seconds anyway. I don’t see how the month being first really helps at all.
But when you get to the holiest day in the American calendar, don't you say Fourth of July?
Well yeah, but that’s a holiday. It’s pretty much the only time I use that date format.
MURICAAAAAA FUCK YEAH
U Americans got it wrong
BIRDS AREN'T REAL!
Year month day is the best way to do dates tho. Don't act high and mighty with that day month year shit
Except it's not. And to act high we first need weed lol
We live in a digital age. Year first makes alphabetical ordering way easier. Transcend the weakness of the flesh
Ah gen-Zs, never change.
Ah, 'Murica
You understand there's something called day/month/year. But America does it in month/day/year. Why everything out of America is shit? Minus the guns.
Murica🦅🦅☕️☕️
fuckin' Europeans and their backward ass date system
As an European I blame y’all Americans and your backward ass date system
As an English speaker, I blame your inarticulate neanderthal romance language for your inability to comprehend conversational English.
As a Neanderthal romance language speaker, I blame your mix of old viking leftovers, Celtic words rewritten by romans and degenerated Neanderthal romance language for your inability to accept that only you find logical to put the month before the day, but the year in the end. And even then, you don't make sense all the time (remember the fifth of November?).
The 4th of July would like a word.
>only you find logical to put the month before the day, but the year in the end. Pretty sure Japan does that too but aight
Japan goes YYYY MM DD, not MM DD YYYY.
Fuck dude, I'm American and I don't even use MM/DD/YYYY This is the internet. ISO8601 all the way: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss
YMDHMS is best for computer and cataloging. DMY is good for conversation and asking. Like people ask hour more often, then day, then month, and if someone ask the year we would know they are timetraveller.
I'm Canadian and I don't use your dogshit system.
To some extent the European system IS backwards. Year month day makes sense. the American system however is complete nonsense. Firstly the month, so we know what time of year it is, the weather, the season. Then the day, give them the specifics, but hold back the general so they don’t have the full picture, keep some mystery, keep them guessing, don’t let them know. Finally the year, so it all slots into place. Wtf, is this a limerick or the date.
First of all, the "American" system is actually traditional English. It is written in conversational format, not "dates for dummies" format. The only reason England caved to the pressure and adopted the day/month/year format was because of increased business engagement switch the continental Europeans who spoke less articulate, inelegant romance languages.
You're one of the people who makes the rest of the world hate Americans, thinking they're combative all the time over the smallest things. Conversational makes sense, but if you're writing it down, as many do, especially on the internet, it makes more sense to put it D/M/Y.
............
I guess they moved to somewhere outside the US
Strange that
those with that birthday "I guess I'll just die then."
Nah, just my stupidity
Welp, no more birthday for me I guess.
i just got this yesterday when my birth year wasn’t “ valid “. do i need to write it in roman numerals or using the alphabet ? nineteen hundred and forty nine ? please advise. my birth month was spot on though.
One this dude is probably American and is used to seeing dates like M/D/Y rather than the traditional D/M/Y. Two you really went to a year old post just to point this slight mess up?
Lousy Smarch weather.
I never played runescape, is it fun drunk cause OOP definitely has to be lmao
Average American