Kyle B. Johnson

US standards are based on context rather than lazily sorting by 10s or size. I guess the EU needs slide rules to do logarithms if they aren't base 10 though. It must be tough going through life with such linear training. I can see why it would frustrate y'all. You can actually date things either way in the US 30th of July, 2023 is a valid date. For numeric encodings, leading month is most efficient for clerical, bookkeeping, data entry, etc. Often years aren't part of the date at all. It would break English to shoehorn the year toward the beginning. Beyond that when weekdays get involved and different forms of day planning, it makes more and more sense. Guess you get real comfy with a linear progression in metric and can't see the benefit of cups and half cups vs 236.5875 ml and 118.29375 ml