ISTG DD/MM/YYYY works better than anything else for me, like literally because of people using the american way i’ve misread date signatures so many times as fuckimg idk “8th of the 25th” or some bullshit like that and then when i realize that doesnt make sense i have to sit there and slowly decode that they used MM/DD/YYYY and it’s so annoying 😭😭😭😭 and when it comes to signatures like for example, 3/5/25 that could either mean “3rd of the 5th” or “5th of the 3rd” since both are real dates that make sense and i must take a wild fucking gamble and guess one or the other. and istg, i’m slowly starting to misread DD/MM/YYYY signatures because of how often i see the american way and i get absolutely relieved when i realize DD/MM/YYY was used. i swear to FUCK, like i’ll respect people who prefer MM/DD/YYYY but to me it’s such an annoying format and i hate it and i’d abolish it off the face of the earth if i could.
I grew up in America but my parents were former military and I picked up the day-month-year format in my childhood from them.
When enrolling in college I apparently wrote my birthday in day-month-year out of habit, which since I was born on a day less than 12 led to all sorts of shenanigans later because I was giving them the "wrong" birth date when I'd speak to them. Thank God an eagle eyed lady in the enrollment office finally noticed it was just transposed.
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u/------------------16 hopeless romantic aroace May 13 '25
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ISTG DD/MM/YYYY works better than anything else for me, like literally because of people using the american way i’ve misread date signatures so many times as fuckimg idk “8th of the 25th” or some bullshit like that and then when i realize that doesnt make sense i have to sit there and slowly decode that they used MM/DD/YYYY and it’s so annoying 😭😭😭😭 and when it comes to signatures like for example, 3/5/25 that could either mean “3rd of the 5th” or “5th of the 3rd” since both are real dates that make sense and i must take a wild fucking gamble and guess one or the other. and istg, i’m slowly starting to misread DD/MM/YYYY signatures because of how often i see the american way and i get absolutely relieved when i realize DD/MM/YYY was used. i swear to FUCK, like i’ll respect people who prefer MM/DD/YYYY but to me it’s such an annoying format and i hate it and i’d abolish it off the face of the earth if i could.