• thejoker954@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Dont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        My guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I, too, am an 8601 enthusiast. Stupid America means we need to go y-m-d for date ordering to not be ambiguous.