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[Vurn]

Random answer is 7.
Serious is 6.10

[The Abacus]

Abacus show me the avatar! *pm*

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[borys610]

Then it's 06-10.
I like 6 X version best, but if this is law...

[RuloCore]

But isn't it more logical as we do, from less to more time range?
First the day, then the month and then the year.
Hello Logic?

[Vortex]

It's something that the informatics want to impose, the year first is better for them because the calculations of adding and substracting to dates are easier that way, or so I heard.

But it would be stupid that the general population follow that convention, when we look at a date normally the most important info is not the year. After all, years don't change so often as days, if someone looks first for the year number in a date he/she must have been living under a rock XD

[borys610]

When you see date like: 2013-7-11, you don't know if this guy mean 7 XI, or 11 VII.

[Vortex]

In Spain it's always day-month-year, and I think in good part of the world too, except in USA and few more countries, not?
EDIT: or just in the USA?

[borys610]

In Poland we mostly write:
1.3.13 or 1 III 13

[Vurn]

But it would be stupid that the general population follow that convention, when we look at a date normally the most important info is not the year. After all, years don't change so often as days

Don't you get it? It's not about being *logical* or anything. It's about everyone using the same kind of format to avoid confusion. The different ways of writing the dates hardly differ in the terms of being useful. "Normally the most important info is not the year." What do you even mean? Can't you see the month and the day in that convention?

But isn't it more logical as we do, from less to more time range?
First the day, then the month and then the year.
Hello Logic?

When you write a number like 1792, the base value of each digit is decreasing. As in, the 1 at the beginning means a thousand, while 2 at the end means just two. How is that logical?

[Vortex]

Don't you get it? It's not about being *logical* or anything. It's about everyone using the same kind of format to avoid confusion. The different ways of writing the dates hardly differ in the terms of being useful.

Of course I agree to that there should be a convention, but that doesn't mean that this convention isn't biased towards a specific purpose
Anyways, it's not likely that people will follow it, because they aren't used to it and wouldn't want to change their way of writing, and because it was meant as an international standard for organizations rather than for general use. In fact, I think that since 1988 there have been very few instances of it, aside from computer apps, documents following international standards and countries who already had that convention.

"Normally the most important info is not the year." What do you even mean? Can't you see the month and the day in that convention?

I meant that since we read from left to right in most countries, the first thing we see has more impact in the eye. But the effect is minimal.