Americans are right about measuring temperature in Fahrenheit instead of Celsius.

We're also right about mm/dd/yyyy but many people aren't ready for that conversation 😅

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lol I agree with you on a lot of things @asenderling.eth but this is a bridge too far.

Why would you want ascending numerical values when you could have ascending unit size?

More importantly dd/mm/yy gives you information in descending order of relevance from most to least relevant. It’s easy to forget exactly what date it is. Harder to forget what month it is and hardest of all to forget what year you’re in. 

Now if you were arguing for yyyy/mm/dd I could maybe get behind a change.

But mm/dd/yyyy is like the imperial system; ngmi. US hegemony is the only reason you guys haven’t acquiesced to the rest of the world and when that inevitably ends so will your  awkward systems of measurement. 

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But this makes my point! Why would we often place a larger number (the day value) ahead of the smaller number (the month value). mm/dd/yyyy ensures that you are incrementing in numerical values more often.