Americans write dates in this format: MM, DD, YYYY. <\/p>\n
Brits write them this way: DD, MM, YYYY. <\/p>\n
Sometimes you see dates in this format: YYYY, MM, DD. <\/p>\n
From a programming \/ sorting perspective, the American format is the worst of the three, and I’ve seen people criticize it as being illogical. The British format goes from the smallest increment to the biggest, and the last format goes from the biggest to the smallest, but the American format goes middle, smallest, biggest. <\/p>\n
The criticism is clearly just from that point of view, but these things don’t usually happen by accident. For some reason, MM, DD, YYYY caught on. Why? <\/p>\n
Perhaps human brains don’t sort information the way a computer does. For example, perhaps our minds would rather know a general estimate, then a specific, then a “big picture.” <\/p>\n
Someone might say “but don’t the Brits have brains too?” Of course they do, but I think their current date format is a new thing. If you do an image search for old British newspapers, you see the MM, DD, YYYY format. <\/p>\n
The larger point is that accommodating computers might change the way we think in ways we don’t expect. That’s not necessarily a bad or scary thing, but it is something to keep in mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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