Impossible, what madman would use a date-format that goes $MONTH.$DAY.$YEAR that basically have a random order instead of $DAY.$MONTH.$YEAR or $YEAR.$MONTH.$DAY? No one would be that crazy, it's too ambiguous to be useful.
It's clearly intended to be 5th of October, 2023.
(This may or may not be sarcasm, in case people may not or may misunderstand)
I'm not american, but they always seem to do month.day.year for some bizarre reason
It's one of those things that America inherited from England, and then when England changed its method, the Americans saw no need to change because it wasn't part of England anymore.†
If you go into antiques stores in England, you will find that with items that are engraved, the older it is, the more likely it will have the now-American date format.
There was an item on Antiques Roadshow a couple of months ago that was a gift from Queen Victoria to someone that had an engraving that included the American date format.
† This is true for a surprising number of minor differences between America and England. In life, it's often better to understand the history of things, rather than just ignorantly write off a group of people as bizarre.
Decimals proceed in order of refinement to smaller increments. Years are long, months are collections of days, and days are collections of hours, and so forth.
> Then again, we write our dates in a more sensible manner.
yawn
Yeah we write our dates in a more sensible manner too. And also we drive on the correct side of the road and imperial units of measurement are superior.
I have been in the US for 30 years but metric is way better... all that nanometer stuff in your computer is metric not imperial as well
for example a 10cm cube filled with water weighs 1 kilo and is 1 liter, boils at 100 degrees. In the US you deal with cups pints, quarts, gallons... and you can't even convert easily between dry and liquid stuff
I do agree that steering wheels should be on the left :-)
I was being sarcastic because none is better, it's what we're used to. I can do measurements in both imperial and metric, but because imperial is widely used in MY country, I find it "superior", same with everything else.
I think that's because that's how the full date is spoken. It's "September Eleventh" not "Eleventh of September". If someone said "My birthday is twenty-seventh of November" I would wonder if they're a synth.
It's clearly intended to be 5th of October, 2023.
(This may or may not be sarcasm, in case people may not or may misunderstand)