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Public release: 01.02.2025

I assume that date is dd/mm/yyyy... So that means we will see it here in roughly 3 weeks on February 1st?

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yes, he has written the date correctly.
start with the smallest unit, finish with the biggest unit.

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That depends on the country you're from. This matches the European standard, while the standard in the US and Canada is month-day-year, and several Asian countries use year-month-day.

The closest thing to a universally "correct" format would be the ISO standard, which is actually year-month-day.

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logic does not change based on location.
the logical thing to do is to list either the smallest or largest item first, then work your way up.
what makes more sense -
a: one million, one hundred thousand, one thousand, one hundred and one?
or b: one hundred, one, one hundred thousand, one million and one thousand?
#Logic

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Nit-picker! Stop pestering the Milicans with their wrong systems.

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Buddy, I have done graduate work as a logician. That isn't within the realm of logic - it's not a statement of fact that can be deduced in the first place. What it is is convention. Now admittedly, it's a reasonable convention, but it still doesn't have truth value.

I'll also note that the argument of analogy with numerals that you used is actually a point in favour of the ISO standard (year-month-day) and not the standard you called correct (day-month-year). The argument for month-day-year, however, is that it matches how people speak about dates (at least in English) - If people are saying a date out loud it's more often "January the fourth, 2022" than it is "The fourth of January, 2022".

Either way, whatever arguments exist for one or the other, changing conventions is hard. There's a reason we still use a convention for electricity that has it traveling in the opposite direction of the electron-flow. It's a bad convention and pretty much everyone agrees with that, but the cost of changing is greater than the benefits from doing so. So, we're stuck with it for the foreseeable future. This is similar - neither region is going to budge. Hell, the US hasn't even adopted the metric system, and that's a significantly more useful change of convention than this would be (plus there's significantly more worldwide unanimity on it).

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maybe you should put less time into numbers and put just a little bit of time into basic reading and grammar skills? 

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Yeah as an American, that date is confusing since we start with the month first

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I mean the easiest for it to tell though is right now it's Jan 13 so if anyone knows then yeah it's just knowing your dates. If you thought as 1 to be January then it would be wrong since the 2 is there so you have to think about it  and change it to the day instead of the month cause it's Jan 13 now lmao

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Actually, @Abigail is correct.  The default depends a lot on where you live.

I live in the US and here mm/dd/yyyy is by far the most common. However, I do have friends and Europe so I do know that they commonly see dd-mm-yyyy. I admit that I did not know about Asia using year/month/day, I am a computer programmer and with programming yyyy-mm-dd is common because that is the only format mentioned here that does not need to be changed in order for programs to sort the date chronologically.

Basically I asked the question for verification. Logically, I assumed the date was written in European format as using the common format for the US was a date that had already past; although a typo was still a small possibility.