Why in the US do we present our date as: MM/DD/YYYY?

Wouldn't it make more sense to present it as YYYY/MM/DD; especially since we use computers all the time now and sorting would be so much easier.

ISO 8601 seems to think so.

It makes more sense, so I'm going to stick with it...
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I haven't quite made it to the metric system... but it is looking appealing too.

The-Excel wrote:

I like to use DD/MM/YYYY just because.

While it makes more sense than MM/DD/YYYY it still isn't easily sortable.

Syd Lexia wrote:

DD/MM/YYYY makes the most sense, going from smallest increment to greatest, and that's what most countries use. But this is America, so fuck what other countries do. On a related note, I will NEVER use the Metric System. I will kill toddlers with a bicycle chain before I ever use the Metric System.

When reading aloud MM/DD/YYYY makes the most sense. "November Seventeenth Two Thousand and Ten."

When reading a single date DD/MM/YYYY makes the most sense because we think about the date in relationship to the current date.

However, when archiving or listing a date, YYYY/MM/DD allows for sorting to be done by most general units first and then more specific.

The metric system is awesome. I don't know it, so it is hard to use, but it is all about 10. How fucking awesome would it be if everything was just about 10. Very awesome. People might actually be able to understand the relationship between measurements instead of approximating everything.

Ice2SeeYou wrote:

Fuck the metric system.

I bet if you could fuck it, you would have brilliant children.