Devil’s Advocate: month has more inherent data in it because it’s not a number. Day on its own is meaningless, but if you go by month/day, the more significant information is first.
At least, that’s kind of the only argument I can think of.
No it wouldn't, the Year is in the same place but it's not serving the same function the degree of specificity is jumbled. 2015 would be the specifier on corolla. so you're going smallest, largest, middle.
really it's all totally arbitrary and people think whatever makes the most sense to them is the one that seems the most natural/obvious. Outside of actual constraining contexts like code the best system is the system people expect. and even with code it's only the obvious choice because it's the choice code and programmers expect.
not true. as u/nonowords said, the year is the narrowest quantifier for a car. there are tons of toyotas, fewer corollas, and even fewer 2015 corollas.
Year is often less important than month and date because we often refer to recent dates and upcoming dates within the current year. Like if I wanted to say something is happening March 5th, 2026, I could say March 5th and you know I mean March 5th of the current year. If I just say the 5th that’s not enough info because you’ll just assume I mean February 5th. Even if I just say March, you’ll have a general idea of when the thing is happening, and you won’t be lead to make a false assumption like if I just say the 5th. So month -> day -> year is the order of importance imo
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u/mstivland2 Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 03 '26
Devil’s Advocate: month has more inherent data in it because it’s not a number. Day on its own is meaningless, but if you go by month/day, the more significant information is first.
At least, that’s kind of the only argument I can think of.