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I just want to note that only americans use the mm/dd/yyyy and that it's pretty non-logical. So no problem outside the US.


Times and dates are already non-logical. 24 hours in a day but 7 days in a week? Some months have more or less days than other months? Seriously?

http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...

http://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-pro...


I don't get how this is non-logical compared to what I said earlier. 24hour is the same excuse as the empirical system, you can divide 12 by 2,3,4,6 thus it makes things easier. It's a different system than the metric one, we could have said that a day lasted 100hours and week 10days. It doesn't make it non-logical though, it's like changing the basis.

But ordering makes things logical.


OK, so the "non-logical" argument is irrelevant. But the "this is only in the USA" argument still stands.




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