2 points for i don't know but someones going to get 10 points id prefer to get sensibole answer or dare i hope it the right one
2006-08-01 04:05:36 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Europe is on the Metric scale, and it is written that way.
America is bright, and decides to use its SI scale.
Go us, and our ingenuity.
Other countries on the Metric scale use the same format.
Its just america that decides to be different, and its for the simple fact that month to month the day of month is the first thing to change.
It will switch aprox 30 days before it changes the month, and then 365 days before it changes the year. Its a lazy standard thats all. No reason why they did that except for determining a different way of doing things.
In america we measure in inches and its easy. They do it in the metrics, and that is universally easy for them. Their dd/mm/yyyy way is sequencial. Ours isn't. We figure we identify with the month first.
2006-08-07 06:52:54 · answer #1 · answered by gabriel_norm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. There's an article on Wikipedia about it, although it doesn't explain why the difference. BTW the USA is definitely in the minority - the list of countries using dd/mm/yy is much longer than that of those using mm/dd/yy.
Just to muddy the waters a bit, there is an international standard - ISO8601 - which is yyyy-mm-dd.
2006-08-02 12:48:50 · answer #2 · answered by Whoosher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but it's not only the UK, Central America and South America also use that format dd/mm/yyyy, it makes more sense, don't you think?
2006-08-01 13:34:54 · answer #3 · answered by Olgui A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I'm not giving an answer, I don't know but I wondered the same thing myself. The US way doesn't make sense really because the day is the smallest so that goes first then the month and then the year, just as you would say hours, minutes and seconds(well except that's the other way round but it's still in order)
2006-08-01 13:29:48 · answer #4 · answered by Evil J.Twin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
europe has used dd/mm/yyyy for at least 10 years. that was the last time i was there and the stamps in my passport are that way.
2006-08-01 11:13:10 · answer #5 · answered by queeneazy420 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would prefer UK standard cos day comes first then the month and lastly the year.e.g.today is 08.09.2006 in singapore,by the way it's our National Day.We are only 41 years old a new nation compare to USA.
2006-08-09 04:20:01 · answer #6 · answered by sox_rchrd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At exactly the same time that we started driving on the opposite side of the road. Right after the US won the American Revolutionary War. (1775-1778).
2006-08-09 01:17:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure where it comes from, but I know if I was American my date of birth would work out to be the year I was born. ie I was born in 1973, so now work out my birthday.
Perhaps it is something to do with breaking away from the British after the War of Independance?
2006-08-01 11:14:11 · answer #8 · answered by dcparis2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I`d guess that it was when they started putting dates on computers so that documents stored by dates can be retrieved quicker in the US system.The one good thing america has achieved LOL.
2006-08-01 22:45:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't it something to do with the millennium bug in 2000
2006-08-01 11:21:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋