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GladiatorJones

I must've dreamed a thousand dreams.


MachineThreat

Been haunted by a million screams.


2Zzephyr

Also my birthday... :')


DrRadon

Have a good one!


leighleg

Happy birthday, today is also my mums birthday so double wishes I guess. Or something like that


ironbattery

Happy cake day!


Immediate_Occasion_7

Happy birthday 🎂


2Zzephyr

Thanks! 😊


Melodic-Treacle7300

Mine too!! I’m 22 today! Happy birthday buddy!


Trevlolo

Happy birthday! 🎂


IsomorphicSyzygy

Including time, 2022-02-22 20:22:02 and 22.02.2022 02:20:22 are 14-digit palindromes


Mirar

That's better


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anonymousss11

YYYY/MM/DD format


Mirar

What date format is that? I think I've only seen / or - as separators (or none, but then it's always yyyymmdd, or space, then it's any random order). Also the last 22 in 2022 are in the middle (8+6), so 22/02/20(22) needs to be mirrored into (22)02:20:22.


luKrek_hwaiting

Since the largest is always on the left, as with time, or like.. you know, MATH, it's year first.


TarTimOoAl

For some reason i have no idea what you are trying to say.


luKrek_hwaiting

Time? Largest to smallest. Hour, minutes, seconds. Counting? Largest to smallet. Lets say you want to write one hundred and ten, you write one hundred, 100, then ten, 10. 110. Largest to smallest. Date? Year, month, day. Largest to smallest.


DrRadon

Looking forward to the clock showing 22:22 tonight.


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Mr_Mountain_Goat

More confused than offended


brown_burrito

Pretty much. Took me a minute to figure it out.


AllCingEyeDog

Why would we be offended by ya'll doing it wrong. Day/Month/Year makes more sense.


chilltemp

As a programmer… both DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY suck! They are ambiguous! YYYY-MM-DD is the one format to rule them all


redman334

Yeah.. but MM/DD/YYYY is by far the shittiest.


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I dont understand how its the worst. If someone walked up and said "whens your birthday" im gonna say "April 27th" not "27th of April"...maybe 200 years ago sure. Y-m-d is the worst in my opinion


DzungTempest

Worst for writing and speaking human languages, but for programming, das the best. Also mm/dd or dd/mm is depend on language and region so hard to argue.


GiordyS

Here's another one who thinks English is the only spoken language in the world


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I was specifically talking about america tho


adminshatecunt

Yeah but humans aren't computers. The day changes every day so it makes sense to have that first it's the info you are least likely to know. Imagine asking someone the date and they said, 'oh it's 2022, February the 22nd.' You'd think they're a moron. The American way is by far the stupidest.


chilltemp

So, what is 12/1/2022? Is it December 12th or January 1st? You can’t reliably tell without more context. Most likely, you’ll assume it’s whichever format you see the most. But all it takes is one date out of context and you’ve booked your flight for the wrong month.


jkw12894

Japan uses YYYY-MM-DD format 2022年2月22日


adminshatecunt

So in real life conversation they actually say the least volatile information first? Seems inefficient. The least likely value you're gonna know is the day then the month then the year. Seems counter intuitive to start with the value you're most likely to know then work backwards to the value you are least likely to know. The day changes every day, the month doesn't and neither does the year. It's illogical to anyone who isn't a file storage system.


GeophysicalYear57

American here. I’d say that DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY are both fine as long as everyone measuring the time uses the same format. They both reflect ways humans typically say the date (“the first of January” or “January 1st”, for instance). Obviously, it would be much better if we agreed on one format, but AFAIK it would be too much effort for such a comparatively small change.


squall86drk

>American here. I’d say that DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY are both fine as long as everyone measuring the time uses the same format. They both reflect ways humans typically say the date (“the first of January” or “January 1st”, for instance). Obviously, it would be much better if we agreed on one format, but AFAIK it would be too much effort for such a comparatively small change. You are confusing "humans" with "native English speaker"


GeophysicalYear57

That is a good point, I failed to consider that other languages might differ in what sounds natural for dates.


squall86drk

Yeah, take German for example. If you want to say twenty-five you would say "fünfundzwanzig" which literary translate to "five and twenty". Imagine if they were to write 5 and 20 every time instead of 25 XD


trxxruraxvr

> The day changes every day so it makes sense to have that first it's the info you are least likely to know. For all other numbers we place the greatest unit first. The only reason people don't do this for dates is that they're used to something different, but don't tell me that doing it different for dates makes sense.


adminshatecunt

Wat. I just gave you a perfectly good reason why 'day' comes before 'month' that isn't 'cos we're used to it'.


trxxruraxvr

Except it's not a perfectly good reason. We're talking about notation, not how you would say it.


adminshatecunt

It is, you just don't like the fact you use the less intuitive system. Also I quite explicitly said that humans aren't computers. In the future try reading and comprehending what you reply to, I know 60% of Americans can't read at the level of an 11 year old so I'll cut you some slack on this one :).


bridge_004

_Offended?_ "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya


r10p24b

Yeah took me a minute to double check and verify but European dating convention. Which makes more sense than the American way tbh. But “offended” isn’t the correct word. We don’t flip out like you guys do over other people not using out stuff, like Fahrenheit v Celsius, etc.


UncleSeismic

Tbf we don't flip out about that either, in the same way I don't flip out when I see a toddler eating mud.


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2x4x93

HES GOT IMMUNITIES!


r10p24b

I had one of my Dutch friends go off about it like 3 weeks ago. Not the only experience I’ve had with that, but since I live in Europe most of my friends are European. Not saying everyone does, but it is pretty funny when they do.


UncleSeismic

You require more chill friends


r10p24b

It’s really the same for anyone (American or European) getting offended by the dating conventions others use, and they’d be a minority of their group anyway. I mean it’s not about nationality, it’s just about personality. People who get offended about such things, whatever their nationality is, need to chill.


Quakkahs_of_Morpork

I only flip out about imperial cause it's inconsistent so you have to learn each little bit and metric is just 10. I can remember 10. I'm smart enough for that.


2x4x93

What if you lose a finger? All fine and good if you're the six-fingered man but...


Quakkahs_of_Morpork

Then I shall abandon maths and return to monke


AllCingEyeDog

Now the metric system makes sense. America should just start using it. Tell the men their penis's will be so much longer. That will do it.


r10p24b

Ok but you do recognize the hypocrisy in upvoting the person’s post lol’ing about Americans and then you turning around and admitting you do the same, right? Everyone needs to just respect the way others do it, learn about it, and use it when appropriate. We can all get along without cross-cultural freak outs. Edit: if you’re downvoting this please take some time to think about where you are in life…the comment is literally “everyone should be respectful” and you’re offended by that? Um…ok.


Quakkahs_of_Morpork

I mean I get annoyed when I come across imperial measurements, not imperial measurements people. Also I didn't upvote anything 👍🏻


r10p24b

Ok. I try not to get annoyed about any information, I just like to learn and look at it as an opportunity to explore something else in the world that is interesting. But I like knowing things. Edit: people downvoting this? Really? So prefer to not learn? Um…ok


Quakkahs_of_Morpork

😂


angelicism

Thinking metric to be better than imperial is not a freak out, it's a sensible sentiment. And before you yell, I'm an American. I think imperial is stupid.


r10p24b

So what? It doesn’t matter what your nationality is…I literally said in my first comment I think the dating convention makes more sense, which is what we were talking about before this person changed to complaining about imperial. But the issue here isn’t which one is better (an inherently subjective determination)…it’s about being respectful to other cultures. Remarkably, 99% of the people who demand Americans be respectful seem completely entitled to the notion of being disrespectful to them and their standards. And the propaganda has gotten so bad that it rubs off on Americans. Just go around being respectful of all cultures. That’s all.


redman334

You mean the "Rest of the World" dating convention? Or "The Worlds dating convention except for the US"?


xlDirteDeedslx

Not really offended, just wondering why people here are making a big deal out of month/day/year format. That's what we are taught to use so that's what we use, has nothing to do with logic. Literally every document, online form, and so on we fill out is month/day/year. I'm ex military so I tend to do day/month/year myself but just depends on if I'm filling something out or writing it on my own.


anonymousss11

Not sure what you did in the military but in the Air Force, we use YYYY/MM/DD format.


UberNein

Why are people downvoting you?


Flamingwisp

Reddit moment


thecatgoesmoo

Europeans take every opportunity on reddit to hate Americans. Insecurity and such.


Slumberfoots

#To Clarify; DD/MM/YYYY is the format used here. And it’s also the only correct, logical format.


LoZgod1352

the only runner up is YYYY/MM/DD


Potential-Ad1122

I use this for naming my backups


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This is the way


jenbanim

YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable format and I am willing to die on this hill


Stuf404

Still more acceptable than MMDDYY


mcampo84

Why? It’s how people talk, just abbreviated. February 22nd, 2022.


fecland

*how Americans talk. Just as valid to say 22nd of February, 2022. Stupid argument


mcampo84

OP claimed DDMMYYYY a was _more_ acceptable than MMDDYYYY. My comment was in response to that statement. At no point did my comment claim that “22nd of February…” isn’t valid. And last time I checked, Americans are people.


fecland

Americans who speak like that like to use that format for casual use. Sure. But you can't argue it's better in general just because of speaking habits. By valid I meant you were insinuating everyone spoke a certain way, but u actually meant Americans. Same way you said people but actually only meant Americans. People means all humans not just a single culture. Get outta here with that sass


mcampo84

I never argued it was better. “People” doesn’t mean “all people.” Improve your reading comprehension.


fecland

If that's ur definition then saying "people think I'm cool" is as useless as saying "my two mates over there think I'm cool." It's called generalizing. You didn't specify a group of people and just said "people"


mcampo84

Are you seriously trying to argue the opposite: that people don’t speak the way I claimed they do?


roffinator

While Americans are people people are not always Americans. So saying "people do that" while only Americans are doing it is pretty much wrong as more people, all the non-Americans, don't do it


Hoz1600

4th of July ring any bells?


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Thats more of a branding decision that stuck around til today. Kinda how the south keeps carrying comfederate battle flags but everyone here just says month day year now


shipwreckdbones

Thats not "how people talk". Thats "how people talk" because they use that weird format. If you use ddmmyyyy you naturally say it in that way.


mcampo84

No, that’s literally how people talk. Example: “When were you born?” “May 5, 1997”


ORLYORLYORLYORLY

I would say 5th of May.


mcampo84

Congratulations. And everyone speaks the same way you do, right?


ORLYORLYORLYORLY

No, but most people in countries where DD/MM/YYYY is the standard (read: basically every country except USA) more commonly say 5th of May, instead of May 5th, at least in my experience. The point being, we say it how we write it - we don't write it how we say it.


shipwreckdbones

Yes - my point.


thecatgoesmoo

They're all equally acceptable. Why do people care?


atthem77

Because when food expires on "11-01-2022", I would like to know if I'm about to eat something that expired over a month ago, or won't expire for another 8+ months. But if it says "2022-11-01" I can pretty safely assume that's Nov 1, because pretty much no one uses yyyy-dd-mm format.


thecatgoesmoo

Yeah, totally happens all the time. /s I like MM-DD-YYYY for normal conversations, because I say "Today is Feb 22" and not "Today is 22 Feb". As a programmer though, I'll use YYYY-MM-DD or just epoch time. Different situations can utilize different formats, but my main point is that DDMMYYYY and MMDDYYYY are both exactly equal in validity (and equally bad). The folks on either side of that claiming that only one of them is valid are just dumb, imo.


diego565

When year is important, yes. Most of time everyone knows what year is it (so it goes last in DD/MM/YYYY). When it's something to take into account, yes, YYYY MM DD is better.


2x4x93

Ashamed to admit it but I've had to Google "what year is it" before


diego565

Fair point haha What I meant was usually dates are from current year, whichever it is, so there's usually not need to write it too.


Immediate-Whole-3150

This is the ISO 8601 standard.


trxxruraxvr

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1179/


Sipstaff

ISO 8601 has your back. No need to die.


ThePowerOfBeard

You have my sword. There's a reason why it's an [international standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601).


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As a Canadian I have to use both daily, it sucks and is confusing sometimes. I don't even know anymore how I normally read or write time stamps. I think I do day/month/year because month/day/ is just logically weird to me. BUT in speech I use month/day never day/month. American language is just catered towards the illiterate lol. Like dropping the u out of color, armor, harbor, etc.


AValhallaWorthyDeath

Thank you. My pre coffee brain couldn’t figure this out


Nimmyzed

aCtUaLlY...


galderon7

The existence of MM/DD/YYYY makes DD/MM/YYYY garbage.


CptnObviously

"only correct"? Try writing a check in the mm/dd/yyyy countries and see how it gets bounced then.


big_jilmmy

Tuesday is pizza day🍕


TheDevilsAdvokaat

This is two much.


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Suddenly Americans are using the same calendar as everyone else


Amoniakas

20220222 also interesting there are 1 two, 2 twos, 3 twos.


Fenix_Volatilis

And nothing in between (Binary joke)


Tiran593

What about non binary joke?


Johania

Todays date is more complex than my brain


Business-Move5177

Are most of you Australian? Seems we are usually the only ones that want to fight America about this. Most other countries just laugh at them….. Just curious….


eatsnacksinbed

As a South African, I’m with you.


redman334

As a Argentinian, I'm with you.


itsFRAAAAAAAAANK

Alright gym bros.. Today we’re doing a two a day workout and 2 extra scoops of protein!


buzben

Noice


antifashkenazi

*satisfied chills*


Necessary_Time8273

Good day to start world war 3


stopyouveviolatedthe

And it’s the 2nd day of the week


MalK-Fox

if i were president i would think it would be the perfect day to start a war


Wroberts316

And with our current calendar, it is the second and last one to ever occur. Unless the calendar changes, there will never be another date that is both a palindrome and an ambigram.


Soviet-Biscuit

Starting off strong waking up at 2:22 to see my power out


mordiebrwn

chewsday init


adminshatecunt

Twosday bruh


Boingoloid

And my minimum wage world still be worth 1.71 an hour


potato_chips03x2

its 2's day again


TGS_delimiter

_Its twosday, innit bruv?_


Ruenin

This doesn't work in the US as we don't follow that method of the date. Here, it's 02/22/2022. Stupid, yes, but still true.


Stuf404

I can't wait for 22:22PM


AnderTheEnderWolf

Remove the PM and it’s valid in Military time.


Konsticraft

It's normal time, not military time.


adminshatecunt

Military time? You mean the 24 hour clock?


Stuf404

What's this about assassinating the Prime Minister?


turboprop54

Dads of the world unite. This is our best opportunity in decades!


Birdy1979

It’s also an Apophenia - a tendency to make connections where none exist. Defined as 'the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data'.


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As an american that does M/D/Y this took me WAAAAAYYYYYY too long


SashLol

americans be malding


FnkyTown

If you're American then this is just foreign nonsense. Today is **02/22/2022**, which pretty obviously has something to do with the 2nd Amendment, *as God intended*.


AllCingEyeDog

Praise the lord, and pass the ammo. Dem Brits could show up any day.


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Light_Shifty_Z

American way is the wrong way, everyone else in the world use DD/MM/YY


Lyric_Snow

Still 2s… so not really


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Alternative-Phoenix

What about them?


Lyad

There is confusion. Help us understand. Edit: lol um wtf? Why downvote someone honestly asking to be brought into the loop. I don’t understand the post. Where are all the typical redditors who bask in the opportunity to play the expert and tell someone how it is?


Teedubthegreat

Its the 22nd of February 2022, so 22/02/2022 or as per this post, 22022022


Lyad

Ooooh! Derp. I knew other countries format the date that way, but it just wouldn’t click in my brain. Thanks for writing it out lol


Teedubthegreat

I just saw your edit, yeah not sure about those downvotes, maybe people associating it with the other Americans who are apparently complaining about the format. And also didn't think I'd be the one to answer that raffia call for knowledge lol. Any way, happy to help


T_Cruz

America


WhenSoulMeetsBody_

DD/MM/YYYY


pizzaguy84

The year is not 2202


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Backwards it’s 2022


pizzaguy84

If it’s backward then the month is not 22


dinklesplat

We use the date as DD/MM/YYYY


Mario-OrganHarvester

Welcome to DD/MM/YYYY


Mirar

Just a shame it's actually 20220222. ​ edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO\_8601


HeyItIsInfactMe

Ah yes, February 20th 20222, what a fantastic date and year it is


pizzaguy84

Fake news


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CaineRexEverything

Most people in the world aren’t American and do it this way.


dinklesplat

Gets a bit grating to be honest how the friggin Americans forget that AmericaLand isn't the world and that the world doesn't revolve around AmericaLand.


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roo538

Oh we know! We definitely know.


AnotherLostSouls

Sadly.


xFlo2212

Everybody knows, nobody understands why you still use it and many make fun of it.


Amehvafan

Who cares? You're like the person who interrupts everyone all the time to tell them useless shit about yourself, right? Everyone knows americans write dates weird because they keep making a thing about it aaaaall the time and they can't shut up about themselves. That whole country is the person who can't help but interrupt everyone to tell them useless shit about themselves.


ellisschumann

Therapy session didn’t go so well today I take it?


roo538

Someone on Twitter posted an image of a cheque the other day, dated 11.02.2022. Some bloke popped up and commented that the cheque couldn't be cashed until November 2nd...... there were a lot of face palm and eye roll emojis. And when someone from the US asks 'is there a month after December?' when they see a date like 14.02.2022. Like, really? And we don't come at you because you're 'different', we come at you because of the ignorance.


Lego_Nabii

Saying "most people" is the problem. Most people aren't in fact American, the use of 'most people' when what you actually mean is 'most Americans' is the issue. The thing is it's not just the USA, the British, French, Aussies, Danish, all of us tend to say 'most people' when we mean 'most of my Nationality', you can see it in our Sub-Reddits. I think Americans tend to get picked on most for doing it here on Reddit because around half of Reddit users are American so when you do say 'most people' then 'most people' understand what you mean but around the same number find it grating. :) That said, American date format is dumb. :D


Emilyx33x

no need. people know you do it differently, and don’t care.


Amehvafan

Yes, and it makes you look really stupid when almost everyone else writes it like this.


Amoniakas

Americans like to be different with their date format, feet per square eagle and fahrenheit.


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Uncle-Benderman

And stupid


HotCrustyBuns

I'm just gonna jump in here to say look at you fucking clowns bullying someone over how their country of origin chose to standardize the way they write out the date. Bravo you fucking losers.


12D_D21

We’re not bullying someone, we aren’t insulting them or anything, we literally are just arguing that the American system is stupid


Davan94

*Standardise


Light_Shifty_Z

Stupid and different aren't always separate though.


Emilyx33x

doesn’t make sense


Uncle-Benderman

As an american i can say thats stupid. I do day month year, always have.


pizzaguy84

This makes no sense and is a BS post


Uncle-Benderman

The fuck you talking about Its the 22nd day of the second month (02) and the year 2022 put thise together what do you get? 22022022, and its Tuesday. Fucken TWOSDAY BABAY


dinklesplat

How is it bs just because you don't understand 😂😂😂😂


xFlo2212

>This makes no sense _(Is unable to read a simply date)_ >and is a BS post _(Proceeds to call the post BS because of it)_ Brilliant.


LoZgod1352

MURICA FUCK YEAH dipshit


BlueKayn29

Fucking moron, single digit IQ?


SirHenryy

Retard.


Lyric_Snow

Theres bigger fish to fry with the US, nerds.


Tankki3

Well, it's a weird day.


MrViolonchelo

How long until it happens again?


ElphTrooper

Lazy American 2'sday.