My unbiased opinion is that dd/mm/yyyy makes more sense, as it starts off more precise (to the day), before expanding to the month and then year. yyyy/mm/dd would still make some sense, but mm/dd/yyyy always seems odd and rather pointless to me.
If you think "14 May, 2016" makes more sense, do you say "15 8, PM" instead of "8:15 PM?"
With mm/dd/yyyy you not only start with the more relevant fact; what part of the year are we, and then what part of that part, but you start out with the smaller chunk, then bigger, then biggest. There are fewer months than days, and fewer days than years. It's symmetry.
You're thinking of what makes sense for you to say. The post is a world map.
In other languages, different formats make more sense. In spanish, saying 14 de Mayo del 2016, makes way more sense.
I prefer the YYYY-MM-DD format, for naming computer files and such so it is sorted by date just with the default alphanumeric sorting.
It's much more confusing if May 28th comes directly after April 28th.
@guestwho But the hour we're in changes much more often than the month, so therefore people will know the month, making it irrelevant to tell them it first, when the day is of more use to them.
@taeminnieah You can say it in most languages either way, I think that either way sounds alright in English.
@sublimegamer That makes the most sense for computing, but seems like it would be less useful in actual conversation.
Darksnow, in actual conversation no normal person recites the month or year in any format.
"What is today?"
"The 15th."
Either way is only useful for future reference in printed form, and it very well could be decades from now that the date is being read on an old report of some kind. Our way is best!
In all seriousness, whatever one is used to is what works best. I've never really cared enough to research why it's different.
With mm/dd/yyyy you not only start with the more relevant fact; what part of the year are we, and then what part of that part, but you start out with the smaller chunk, then bigger, then biggest. There are fewer months than days, and fewer days than years. It's symmetry.
In other languages, different formats make more sense. In spanish, saying 14 de Mayo del 2016, makes way more sense.
It's much more confusing if May 28th comes directly after April 28th.
@taeminnieah You can say it in most languages either way, I think that either way sounds alright in English.
@sublimegamer That makes the most sense for computing, but seems like it would be less useful in actual conversation.
"What is today?"
"The 15th."
Either way is only useful for future reference in printed form, and it very well could be decades from now that the date is being read on an old report of some kind. Our way is best!
In all seriousness, whatever one is used to is what works best. I've never really cared enough to research why it's different.