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DD/MM/YYYY is the best in my opinion
- YYYY-MM-DD is better if you need to sort
  
  If it weren't so ingrained, I would be permanently using YYYY-MM-DD instead of DD/MM/YYYY.
  Works great for east Asia, and it sorts!
  I'd also like to advocate for using 24 time in speech.
  See you at 21 tomorrow :)
  
  Just don't care and use them. People understand them. Maybe they're not used to hearing it, but it doesn't matter. This is what I do and never cam across someone who was so dense that he didn't understand me. I also never had someone tell me that it was strange to do so.
- I agree with this because if you were to say the whole thing verbally, you generally start with the day, the month then the year.
  "It is the 9th of August in the year of our Lord 2023."
  
  We wouldn't in America in most cases. I'd say it's August 9th 2023. I honestly feel like this is such a dumb argument to have because it doesn't matter except for communication with people who use other methods. Now metric vs imperial makes way more sense to me because the metric system is just so much easier for mathematical conversions.
  
  In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.
  
  I like how Europeans pretend they're all scientific, but then still use seconds, minutes, and hours without thinking twice.
  
  Lmao Europe is not the only place where they use metric (I'm not European).
  Seconds are part of the metric system and are the base unit of time. Just because they didn't define it initially doesn't mean it doesn't exist or makes sense. They use milliseconds and kiloseconds; minutes and hours are used for convenience but are not part of the SI
  
  In the USA most people would say “august 9th”, not “the 9th of august”, which is one of the reasons mm/dd/yyyy is the standard format here
  
  Which extrapolated, who the fuck would say “the September of 2024” and not “September, 2024” for example
  
  This is actually often done when trying to be more eloquent or dramatic or add importance, like how Independence day is The 4th of July versus just saying Jily 4th.

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