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Hiku said:
Vini256 said:

DD/MM/YY makes way more sense than MM/DD/YY, I always mix up the dates when looking at the latter.

killeryoshis said:
Celcius is only good for science to me. If I want to actually feel what the temperature feels like the Fahrenheit is way better. So normal people use Fahrenheit and science people use Celcuis for projects.

Also I prefer the M/D/Y format because it mirrors how people speak in English. We say May 4th 2018 not 4th of May 2018. The latter is only said in different languages such as Spanish.

The MM/DD/YY always throws me off. Even after I learned to think about how they usually say it in America, I always have to do a double take. For two reasons. For one, even in English, in Australia for example, I often (always?) heard "2nd October, 2017". Same thing in Swedish, and same thing in Japanese.

But more importantly, we often don't say things the way we write them. And it just makes logical sense when writing numbers to go from Biggest > Smaller > Smallest.
Or Smallest > Bigger > Biggest.  Because that's how numbers generally work. "5939". You can immediately identify which number represents a smaller or bigger value.

That's how I've been viewing the DD/MM/YY or YY/MM/DD system. So that's why I get confused when I see the US system.
If you're just used to one system, and only exposed to it, then you'll be fine either way. But because American English is so common, you have to deal with both systems if you're non-American at some point.

The Fourth of July is the only time Americans usually say it that way. I don't why they say Fourth of July but changed everything else.