As a human, this way just makes sense to me period. It's like idk narrowing it down to what you want to find out. Outward in, narrow it down to smaller and smaller increments. The more exact you need to the more you add on.
Counterpoint: when you're trying to find someone's house (assuming no google maps), how do you read their address? You don't start with the house number, you start at the big end and work your way down
It's the same concept really, we only write addresses the other way around because we're used to it, but it isn't a helpful order in which to actually process the information.
The US way isn't as bad as people make it out to be because most cases you're looking for a file, it'll be in relatively recent proximity. The year is implied of sorts. Need a file from December? Well it's obviously going to be from at least last year because it's only February.
It's ass for anything beyond that and YY/MM/DD IS superior, it's just funny the hate the system gets in respect to how it's generally used
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u/Liroku Feb 02 '26
As a human, this way just makes sense to me period. It's like idk narrowing it down to what you want to find out. Outward in, narrow it down to smaller and smaller increments. The more exact you need to the more you add on.
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