Why do Americans do the date differently?
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I'd say it's likely parallel development, similar to how some countries drive on the right and others on the left, when the road rules were being written they just picked one, and didn't bother to see how it was done in other countries.
Writing a date as a set of numbers only is fairly new in the western world, I think, almost all of the old documents I've seen were written like 1st of January 1778
Yes it can be bloody annoying, but we honestly can't expect them adapt the system to suit us, both ways of writing it, even if you wanted to go yyyy/mm/dd it could work as well, are valid. It's not like the metric system where everyone knows it's retarded they haven't adopted it.
Writing a date as a set of numbers only is fairly new in the western world, I think, almost all of the old documents I've seen were written like 1st of January 1778
Yes it can be bloody annoying, but we honestly can't expect them adapt the system to suit us, both ways of writing it, even if you wanted to go yyyy/mm/dd it could work as well, are valid. It's not like the metric system where everyone knows it's retarded they haven't adopted it.
As a person from "rest of the world" trying to apply to American Colleges: Yes, it does matter.Irridium said:
In fact it's ANNOYING! America (not you or any other specific american) needs to grow up and stop trying to be different from my fair land of "everywhere else on the planet" in pathetic ways.
I'm sorry if this comment seems derogatory and troll-ish..... but it really is pretty damn Annoying to have to print stuff twice just cause you "got the date wrong".
Does it really matter? Lots of countries have their own way of doing or measuring certain things. To laud one system above another in this instance is just an example of ethnocentrism. I've traveled internationally for business, the differences like these might be jarring at first, but eventually you get used to them. If you're talking to someone from Britain and you need the date, you learn they're putting the day first. If you're talking with someone from American, the month goes first.
Adapt, accept it, move on. There are far better things we could be arguing about.
Adapt, accept it, move on. There are far better things we could be arguing about.
.......what? "there's thirty November's a year"? really? My Mind = Blown.Ironic Pirate said:
I get what you mean in that sentence btw; but just look at it objectively and you get the most retarded statement ever.....of all time. XD
