Why do Americans write the month first?
>"That's how you say it, month first"
>What's the date today?
>"It's the fourth of July"
because americans are dumb inbred shits
"July Fourth" is a thing where I live. I don't know about other burgers.
>>79697961
Retardation
the month is the most important piece of information in a date, just like how the hour is more important than the minute
>>79698084
Turks are dumber than Muricans and have higher rates of incest.
What is it with butthurt sub-humans and insulting other people? You have no right to insult anyone.
>>79697961
Because that gives you context for the day.
7/4/16 versus 4/7/16. If you read the latter, you see that it's the fourth of something first, and that it's in 2016. But the former tells you it's a date in the 7th month of 2016.
>>79698084
>Turkish
>calling others inbred
>always trying to shit talk Americans
When will you stop being so asshurt all the time?
Why not? Who the fuck cares?
>>79697961
sage this shit
>>79697961
"The business of America is business."
Writing the month first means every years' documentation is in order.
Stupid people will never have even thought that. They'll just mutter 'inbreds durp' or 'lol redard'. Because they aren't American.
>>79697961
Why do Japanese women put cock roaches in their pussies?
>>79698244
this
oh look this thread again...
I understand you guys have some sort of inferiority complex against us but it just looks pathetic when you go about it on freedom day. It's like you aren't even trying to hide your true intentions.
>>79698315
NASA uses metric.
>>79698142
Why?
The date thing isn't that bad, the USA still not using the metric system is the true insanity.
>>79698498
NASA didn't use metric until the late 90s.
>>79698498
Savage
>>79698662
old habits die hard
There are still countries that drive on the left side too, you know
>>79698498
>NASA uses metric
Which is why we have no space program now.
Thanks, obama.
>>79698662
Like all the failure countries.
Because June first is less words than The first of June.
>>79697961
Not sure if bait
There are 12 months to choose from
31 days to choose from
and OVER 200 YEARS to choose from you fucking retard
>>79699060
2000* years. Either way, your pyramid is retarded
>>79699060
>Not sure if bait
Why?
>>79697961
Why can't language sound pleasant?
I'm not a fucking computer.
>>79699060
>>79699087
how do you get 2000, there's been 6000 years
>being mad about something that doesn't matter
W E W lad
>>79699114
There are only 12 months to choose from
There are 28-31 days to choose from, depending on the month
Look at the original picture again. They flipped the day and month section with no logical basis to do it.
>>79699299
>>79699060
Not sure if bait
There are 60 seconds to choose from
60 minutes to choose from
and 24 HOURS to choose from you fucking retard
fucking eurofags, it's 11:30:05, NOT 11:05:30
-.-
Remember the stadia?
Yeah, no one else does either. It's the old metric system. No one knows the length because it was retarded to base a measurement on a made-up concept.
The meter is the distance light travels in blahblahblah. After the next war, no one will be able to measure that.
In the English system, the base measurement is part of the human body (no, not your feet, dumbass), and so can't be lost.
>>79697961
Month
123456789101112
Day
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Year
<~123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445~>
Looks like a solid pyramid to me. Go fuck yourself.
>>79699374
That's still wrong
For usa the month should be on the bottom
>>79697961
Lel
>>79697961
Month: any whole number from 1 to 12
Day: any whole number from 1 to 30
Year: infinity
>>79699299
I was asking why you aren't sure if it's bait. It's clearly bait.
>>79699801
Minute: 60 seconds
Hour: 60 minutes
Day: 24 hours
Month: ~30 days
Year: 12 months
>>79697961
>Why do Americans write the month first?
Because calendars are paper books.
Say you and I were conducting an important and time-sensitive operation over the phone. I tell you the date, and the first thing you'll want is the page it is on, right?
>>79700019
this
/thread
>>79697961
>"That's how you say it, month first"
we actually do it just to confuse and anger the rest of the world
fuck are you gonna do about it
This is such a trivial fucking criticism of the US. There is no reason to get butthurt at the US for this shit.
But /pol/ will argue over any fucking thing
>>79697961
Because pyramids are for Egyptian desert niggers and we're not about that
We also like to mix things up to confuse the rest of the world. It's our way of filtering out the retards
>>79697961
Because a month can balance on a day.
>>79698142
Yeah, it's interchangeable in MI.
"July fourth weekend"
"It's dah fireworks tonigh"
Because its an American system. We use feet and inches and Fahrenheit because we feel like it.
Stay mad. We don't do great things because of you
>>79697961
>>79697961
In business, the most important two figures are the month and the date.
The year can be generally assumed. So it's written last if at all.
If you're organizing a spreadsheet, writing the day first is a pain in the ass. It's far more convenient to write the month first so everything is in linear order. Most projects fall within the same year, and the exact due date of the project is flexible: so the month is the relevant factor.
When you're telling someone the due date of your project, you don't say "it'll be in on the 5th". Because you haven't specified what month you're talking about (the year is assumed unless otherwise stated). It's far better to say "it'll be done by July", specifying the general time frame while leaving yourself a little bit of wiggle room on the exact date
It's just an issue of convenience. Our society isn't scientifically planned, the customs evolve organically
>>79697961
It makes sense in terms of length
Month: 1 - 12
Day: 1 - 31
Year: 0 - ????
>>79697961
>Why do Americans write the month first?
Because there is literally nothing wrong with it.
>>79700138
Right the election to Hillary wins. Its what you get fucker
>>79697961
Because most people say "May 3rd" or "August 31st", not "the seventeenth of November".
>>79700707
That makes no sense and you know it, you can put anything into a fucking pyramid shape, doesn't make it logical
>>79698142
I hear them saying, "4th of July."
In fact, there's a movie called "Born on the Fourth of July" about a Vietnam war vet that finds out he lost his legs in the war for nothing.
>>79700138
laugh at you kek
>>79698315
>whose flag is on the moon
No ones, the flags are white now.
>>79700707
you do realize that the temperature scale isn't 0-100 by default? we're not talking about percentages, we're essentially talking about a made up scale. they all relate to each other, and the start is absolute zero, which kelvin has set to 0. that means that celcius starts at -273,15, not 0. dumb fuck.
>>79700982
I'll break it down for you, britbong
>smallest set
>larger set
>largest set
>>79701028
So, a French flag?
>>79701104
>day
>month
>year
>this concept is too hard for the amerifat to understand
>>79699024
>Which is why we have no space program now.
>Thanks, obama.
LMAO
This post made me laugh
>>79697961
>Why do Americans write the month first?
Because FUCK YOU, that's why
>>79699951
Did you know that the metric movement originally tried to make clocks with 100 seconds? And 10 hours in a day?
Nobody went for it. Because it wasn't useful or convenient for everyday usage (just like the metric system).
This is the problem with a couple scientists trying to centrally micromanage the customs of the entire society out of whole cloth. It doesn't work.
For example, Europeans constantly give Americans shit for their Imperial units. The fact is that Imperial units are scaled to the proportions of the human body. They're very intuitive and easy to work with. While the metric system works well for a scientist off in an ivory tower, it might not be the best system of measurement for the population at large.
Conversion factors are extremely easy, rewriting your entire system of measurement just to eliminate conversion factors is retarded.
Besides, the metric system is arbitrary as fuck. What is a meter defined as, 1/100,000th of the Earth's circumference? And it turns out the measurement they based it on was wrong
>>79701104
>month
>hour
>day
>minute
>second
>year
>>79698084
>>79701104
>a set of days is larger than a set of month, consisting of roughly 30 days
>>79701133
>can't understand that 1-12 is a smaller range than 1-31
>can't understand convenience of sorting things by the month rather than the day
>being this ill-informed to participate
You don't have to admit you're dumb. It's assumed.
>>79698150
That analogy is not even accurate, moron.
>>79698084
>Muslims calling anyone inbred
Why do you think the average Muslim IQ is a full standard deviation lower than Europeans? Inbred roach.
>>79700722
>>79700019
These
I work in chemical manufacturing so we constantly have to do GDP bullshit and write initials and date....but we write the date as 04Jul16, euro style.
I do it in everyday conversation out of habit and it makes me the ASSHOLE IN THE ROOM
>>79701346
that means
>month
>hour
>day
>minute
>second
>year
by your logic
>>79701308
That's why it goes second, because it's a larger range than 1-12. Then it's in order from the smallest set to the largest set.
>>79699374
You read from the top to the bottom, so the pyramid is for the European logic.
>>79698150
i can't even tell if this is a joke or not..
>>79701599
I could say the same thing about the current state of your country Sven
>>79698315
So you only have one document per month? What if you have 100 documents to file? If you're going to read the whole date anyway then your point is irrelevant...
>>79701650
>hey gus mudslim yoke xD
>>79701403
In what world are you living that you include the minute, second, and the hour in dating things?
In our set understanding of how we date things, which will include an arrangement of the month, day, and year, out of those 3 variables the month has the smallest range.
This is beginning to be a problem of general logic, for you.
>>79700707
>0°C
>fairly cold
mate that is literally freezing
>>79701737
You know, JUST KNOW, that was written by a fat black woman.
>>79701751
They're all units of time you cretin
>>79701775
>thinking 32° Fahrenheit is shit
Wew lad you don't know cold then
>>79700019
the correct answer.
some of you people are genuinely retarded
It should be YYYY/MM/DY
But honestly, who cares.
>murrican people
MM/DD/YYYY
>most of the world's people
DD/MM/YYYY
>business standard
YYYY/MM/DD
>>79702136
>implying people who live outside the US are relevant
Day/month makes more sense than month/day. I don't understand why Americans seem to think that set size matters more than the size of the objects in the set.
That said, no-one seems to notice the objectively superior method (especially for the information age,) of year/month/day. Today is 2016-07-04.
>>79701879
Millimeters and milligrams are units of measurement, too, but I'm pretty fuckin sure we don't use them concerning height and weight.
So using that same logic, that the second, minute, and hour aren't used to measure the date,
The month is the smallest range.
Pls insert brain here
DDMMMYYYY is the single best date format.
A bunch of numbers and slashes is just fucking confusing.
04JUL1776
It's IMPOSSIBLE to misinterpret the above.
04/07/76
or worse
4/7/76
Who the fuck knows what it is. What century? What month? Which is the day?
DDMMMYYYY is absolute best.
>>79700019
Thats an awful analogy because its presented as a whole and is easy to interpret in any format.
I could just as easily say that the day is the page, the month is the section and the year is the chapter.
In reality, there's no logical reason for it. It doesn't necessarily make it less valid, but it would make you look less retarded if you were to stop trying to come up with terrible similies.
>>79702196
>That said, no-one seems to notice the objectively superior method (especially for the information age,) of year/month/day. Today is 2016-07-04.
This is what we use in Japan.
>>79697961
The idea behind it is good, but ultimately badly implemented.
If you're asking when something happened, giving the month before the day is good because it conveys more immediately useful information. However, the proper way to do it would be giving the year first, then month and then day, omitting the year if it's obvious given the circumstances (see ISO 8601)
However, in a classical case of American retardation, they give the year last, after month and day, ultimately losing any benefits you could have over the usual day/month/year system.
>>79702459
Its business standard, anyone who isn't a neet or low level lackey is used to yyyy-mm-dd as an alternative.
Or i guess if you just don't work in that sort of environment.
>>79698084
A fucking turkroach
>>79697961
>"It's the fourth of July"
That is the only day we say that, the other 364 days it's month first
>>79702358
There would be no confusion with DD/MM/YYYY, or any arrangement of DD MM and YYYY, if the whole world only ever used that method. Your confusion isn't coming from the method being used, but the fact that someone could have been using a different method.
>>79702834
Using a number for the month is dumb. Use the first three letters. The months have names, let's fucking use them.
>>79698150
Following your logic, a year is most important, because many things can change in a span of a year, but would you use YYYY/MM/DD then?
because fuck yourself
we were independent first
>>79703167
>code monkeys kill themselves en masse
>>79701775
Knowing when water change into ice or when snow can fall and you have to clean all that snow from driveway, change tires to winter ones etc is more important IMO
And thats why we got 0 as a point in Celsius
>>79702170
>implying YYYY/MM/DD isn't used in the US when archiving
YYYY/MM/DD is the most logical one.
DD/MM/YYYY is kind of ehhh, but there are good reasons to use it in everyday life, since the year doesn't change than often.
MM/DD/YYYY is some form of retardation which I can only fathom as useful in times when the day was kind of irrelevant, ie you had a "July 2016" happening. YYYY/MM/DD does the exact same thing, if not better in some cases.
>>79702226
>american education
He talks about all of those being units of time,
and you bring the example of an unit of weight and an unit of length. That's comparing an apples to jet fuel.
Comparing days to seconds is like comparing apples to slices of apple.
>Pls insert brain here
I think you should follow your advice
>second, minute, and hour aren't used to measure the date
Wrong. That's literally the reason these particular units of time actually exist in the first place, and we aren't using some arbitrary measurement in stead of them. Their definition may have changed in the scientific sense, but doesn't change the fact that the units were originally based on the length of the day.
>>79698315
>Writing the month first means every years' documentation is in order.
It means documentation is ordered by month
The best file format is year-month-day - which happens to be day-month-year backwards (because that's how you get files to arrange chronologically). It's got nothing to do with your backwards ass month-day
>>79703713
Celsius is also set to Kelvin, as in, 1k temp difference is the same as 1c temp difference. Fahrenheit isn't even fucking related to Kelvin.
>>79699374
Because nips read from right to left like jews and shitskins. Really makes you think.
>>79697961
>What's the date today?
>July 4th
fixed.
They're interchangable but the Month->Day is easier abbreviated in speech.
Nobody says or will ever say "4th July" they will always have to add those extra 2 prepositions/syllables "the" and "of"
>>79703994
But that's exactly what 4 americans I spoke with today said. Hence the quotes
>>79697961
I love the shitposters of Japan.
>>79704100
Like I said, it's interchangable, but Independence day is one of the few days where it IS more common to use the long form of the date instead of the abbreviated Month->Day form
Ask them tomorrow what day it is and they'll likely say "July 5th"
The Fourth of July, being a holiday that is known by its date as much as its name (Independence Day), is a bit skewed.
if you ask them "what day is Christmas on" most of the time they'll say "December 25th" instead of "the 25th of December"
What day's new year's on?
"January 1st" etc.
It's REALLY skewed for this one day.
>>79701252
No, it's set on the speed of light
>>79704100
The "fourth of july" is an event, a special day to americans.
So its spoken differently like that. Ask on another day and you'll get july 5th for example
>>79698262
Do you even redneck?
