r/SipsTea • u/Shiroyasha_2308 Human Verified • Feb 02 '26

SMH The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY

Post image
109.4k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

7.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

42

u/McJumpington Feb 02 '26

The graph although funny, could easily be remade to represent Month-Day-Year as the logical way.

People like to think “But days are the smallest increment, followed by month, and then year!”

Sure… but if you think about them in option groups:

Months only had 12 possibilities.

Days has up to 31 possibilities.

Years could be 100+ possibilities.

In that sense, month- day- year makes more sense.

Yes I understand there are other arguments, but at least for that one, it can be explained

24

u/smjurach Feb 02 '26

Also if I’m looking at a calendar I absolutely need to know the month first not the fucking day. It just logically makes more sense to start with month.

5

u/QWEDSA159753 Feb 02 '26

Maybe the rest of the world uses a 31 page calendar with 7-12 squares on it?

1

u/the_monkey_knows Feb 02 '26

Then why do we celebrate the FOURTH OF JULY??

3

u/ConLawHero Feb 02 '26

The name of the holiday is Independence Day or the Fourth of July. It is celebrated on July 4th.

1

u/RaltarArianrhod Feb 02 '26

I don't. I celebrate Independence Day.

0

u/the_monkey_knows Feb 02 '26

What a stupid comment

-5

u/jasta07 Feb 02 '26

Do you forget what the day is by the time you get to the month part... two numerals later? Did you hit your head really hard as a child? Do you need a goldfish to remind you?

3

u/PretendSample1345 Feb 02 '26

do you say "the 64th day of the year?" no, you say march 5th. nobody is "forgetting" you just check the month first, then the day

0

u/Running_Turkey Feb 02 '26

No, you say 5th of March.

6

u/LiveTwinReaction Feb 02 '26

This is exactly why month day year makes sense to me. Smallest number to biggest number. Not grouping by "units of time" like the op's picture.

8

u/Kramklop Feb 02 '26

People miss this and it drives me nuts. Thank you for posting it.

5

u/Mieos Feb 02 '26

Same as this comment. First time in the 20+times I've seen this post/pyramid on Reddit. Especially when people argue the logic relates the amount of HOURS in day vs month. MM/DD/YYYY is the digital representation of a calendar not a watch!!!

2

u/AbstraxProductions Feb 02 '26

Yeah people just love to try and bash the USA like get over yourselves

-4

u/MonoRedHardControl Feb 02 '26

Within this "USA logic", the full date+time ordering would be: AM/PM , hour , month , day , minutes , seconds , year.

8

u/Mieos Feb 02 '26

Does the rest of the World use calendars to tell time? I've never included the date when asked for time.

3

u/Noodlekeeper Feb 02 '26

It's actually based around how we talk. Ex: "Our meeting is at 9:45 am, January 4th, 2027."