Not sure the exact history but Americans use ordinal numbers for the day like “March 3rd” in spoken form so the writing probably just follows the speech.
Im guessing it’s cultural. As scatmandingo says, Americans usually phrase it as “March 23rd” instead of “23rd of March” but can say either. The d/m/y format simply goes littlest unit to biggest. M/y/d supplies information in relative order of context. It’s uncommon to need to know year in context of conversation. Take the example: “when does school start again?” I can easily infer what year that will take place by the month, and the question. If it starts in September, I am aware break won’t last until 2019. If it starts in January, I know it must be 2019. If I only know it the month it starts- I know to be prepared by then. If I only know it starts the 23rd, ok... of what? It’s common for many events to simply give a month, less common to give a date unless it is within the same month in which case the month isn’t strictly needed. It’s easier to “follow.” Use a non date to tell a story and see: “I was in the candy isle at the Tesco..” “I was at Tesco, in the candy isle..”
*aisle
Apart from that, m/d/y is illogical. It's neither ascending order nor descending order. For the rest of the planet (ie: non-US) it's utterly confusing, as any date with numbers under 12 appears wrongly (eg: 8/6/18 vs 6/8/18), and any date that has at least 1 number over 12 produces a brief mental hiccup as the brain tries to work out what's wrong and loses track of the info and context in the sentence (eg: 3/30/18).
Basically, Americans, just wrong, and confusing. Please stop doing it. There IS a world-standard dating system outside of your monocultural nirvanaic thought-bubble of a nation.
Well those two facts kind of support @chad_bullet. With the accent at least I know Americans refused to adopt it because we wanted to be different, it may be true of as well of both metric and date format.
Are we hurting you? Are your sensibilities so fragile that us doing things differently is actually hurting your little mind? You think we should "fall in line" for your convenience? Fuck off. And don't call it pride, call it spite. There's something deeply satisfying in knowing that you Euros just don't like things being run differently from your way.
It’s somewhat humorous to me some of the sentiments in this thread- considering a major reason for world date format is the history of imperialism and cultural bullying and erasure by the UK. So many “standards” were set when the UK landed and said “you’re primitive and backwards ways need erased for our modern intelligent ways” or the modern version: “your mono cultural niraniac thought bubble.” There is a history of the UK supplanting the cultures of others for their convenience, and deeming anyone who didn’t follow along were clearly morons. Given that it’s a tad humorous that America would catch shit for having the ability and might to oppose UK monoculturalism. The United States does not bend its knee to the crown, now or ever. We built a country to piss the brits off and 200+ years later we are still succeeding. The US isn’t perfect, but no one else is either. We just want to do our own thing. Like it or leave it. No ones making you use our dates.
I've never met a pompous Anzac but i wouldn't put it past any. That being said Germans and the English can be pretty fucking dickish from my experience so my guess would be uk
Apart from that, m/d/y is illogical. It's neither ascending order nor descending order. For the rest of the planet (ie: non-US) it's utterly confusing, as any date with numbers under 12 appears wrongly (eg: 8/6/18 vs 6/8/18), and any date that has at least 1 number over 12 produces a brief mental hiccup as the brain tries to work out what's wrong and loses track of the info and context in the sentence (eg: 3/30/18).
Basically, Americans, just wrong, and confusing. Please stop doing it. There IS a world-standard dating system outside of your monocultural nirvanaic thought-bubble of a nation.
Clearly guest doesn't know anything about the U.S.