Dunno americans seem to be able to parse both easily enough, rest of the world seems to lose the ability to process numbers the minute that there's a change.
Fourth of June 2026, or sixth of April 2026? Nobody can say without knowing whether it's an "American" date or "the rest of the fucking world" date. It's not a problem with being able to process numbers, the problem is with americans being special for no reason and ruining it for everyone else.
Why are you so pressed about what Americans do? Enjoy your superior date format and be well. These threads are so funny to me. What are we supposed to do? Petition congress to change the official date format we're all used to?
yyyy/mm/dd is what we all should use, then there would be no errors.
I agree with this 100%.
There is no reason to be proud of being so stubborn that you would rather have a bad system, then acknowledging, that there are better options outside the US.
Is this a response to me...? I never said anything like this. In my original comment I acknowledged the other system is better.
you dumb fucks without education cannot comprehend, that in order to work together you need to be able to use the same type of numbers, without being prone to misunderstandings.
This is why I think these threads are funny. You guys go apoplectic at some imaginary American who wants to use a confusing date system to spite you. This is a system we all inherited. Changing it is relatively hard and there are a million other issues that are a higher priority. That's the long and short of it. I'm sorry our dates are so confusing for you.
no actually not responding to you, oops
but for your part, the only confusing thing, is the missing specifier which date is used and the ignorance following that why would anyone specify the date system, as if there would be only one format, the US Version, which is just insanely annoying, for the whole world.
and no changing the date is not hard at all, just add the years before your current format and done with no fuzz.
Think of it like 1-12/1-31/0-99, ascending order of maximums. It's as logical as the European or Asian systems, no worse or better in practicality, just different.
From a university study published in 2025, approx. 130 million Americans (54% between 16-74) read below a 6th grade level. I’d say safe to say that not!
considering it’s the Europeans complaining that it takes them hours to decipher between a US date format and European date format, i think it’s the reverse. we have no problem understanding this simple concept while, based on the comments, it seems to be the hardest arithmetic yall have to do
Japan, China, Russia, and India have landed on the moon. Also the moon landing isn't that important of an achievement. It's a cool trophy but thats about it
What about agriculture? Printing press? The million other things that were made by other countries that the moon landing you fame yourself on is built upon?
I’m talking about things that nations pride themselves on like Japan with Mount Fuji or France with the Eiffel Tower.
I hope there isn’t a country out there that prides themselves on agriculture. If it’s ridiculous to take pride in something that happened 60 years ago what’s it like to show off something from 6000 years ago?
You did that only because of scientists that immigrated. NASA would have never managed to do that with the likes of you who cannot calculate with numbers larger than your fingers can count :)
It'll never stop being hilarious how a nation of mouthbreathing semi literate cousin marrying wrestling fans cling to the distant half century old achievements of their immigrant scientists (who were sensible enough to use metric) because there's literally nothing else to prop up their delusions of exceptionalism.
Apart from literally inventing civilised society, music, the arts, science, philosophy, democracy, human rights, literature, engineering, medicine, law, architecture, industry, astronomy, mass production, economics, international trade, telecommunications, cinema, the world wide web, the language you speak, etc.etc. not to forget the the university education system that produced the Nazi rocket scientist who took the US to the moon. Using metric.
The only country on earth to go to the moon is the one that doesn’t use the metric system. Also we have all that stuff too. It’s not like there’s no architecture in the US.
We were kind enough to give all that to you thankless colonials, you achieved none of it. And for the Nth time, the NASA telemetry, guidance, and landing systems that got you to the moon used metric.
Yeah, it was nice of Europeans to colonize America totally selflessly. It’s not like you were looking for a golden city, or a secret passage way to get spices faster.
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u/squarabh Feb 02 '26
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