2006-09-15 14:23:59 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
USA and Britain originally use day, month, year format of writing the date. When the middle endian form of writing the date was implemented which order is the month,day,year USA adopted such format and UK also used it for short while and finally reverted to the original form (day, month, year) which was revived around 1900; the USA chose to stick with month, day, year format. Countries with USA influence follow the same pattern of writing. The Commonwaelth and most of the European countries do as the British way.
2006-09-15 18:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Britain and Europe are not the only ones who use this format. Military use the date month year format as well. As to why Americans write the month date and year I really have no idea. I do know that because of being married to a Navy man, I write date month year.
2006-09-15 21:26:53 · answer #2 · answered by mom of girls 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I second that CAPP. When I am organizing files at work on the database, the only sensible way to do it is year/month/day. It was hard to change a lifetime of habit, writing month/day/year. Now I wonder if all of those people entering and storing data on their home computers catch on, will there be a new standard set?
2006-09-15 21:36:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
neither really work. y-m-d-h is the way it will be for all years from now because that's the only way you can sort the days/months/whatever in a database.
consider 2006091506
being Sept. 15 2006 @ 6am
try sorting 09-15-2006 next year
Real Answer is: Uk count down days to there holiday, we conunt the months.
2006-09-15 21:30:36 · answer #4 · answered by capp 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Purely a cultural difference. A standard had to be established and the U.S. adopted m-d-y.
2006-09-15 21:28:52 · answer #5 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this bugs me too, especially since a day is part of a month, and a month part of a year, and so d-m-y seems more organized. i always use d-m-y. u.s. is wierd--just like how we use the american measurement system instead of metric, which is much more sensible.
2006-09-15 21:28:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
b/c we as americans are suborn. and we dont caire what the hell anyone els thinks. just like with our system of measurement. witch is a pain in the *** when you go outside of the country.
2006-09-15 21:29:56 · answer #7 · answered by Andrew F 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If u haven't noticed america does everything differently. we are unique. lol
2006-09-15 21:27:28 · answer #8 · answered by xoveexo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
America does everything different.
2006-09-15 21:25:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who cares.
2006-09-15 21:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by kar_summers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋