I’m sorry but it doesn’t make sense TO ME. Based on what I was taught, regardless of the month, I think what matters first is to know what day of the month you are in, if at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of said month. After you know that, you can find out the month to know where you are in the year.
What is the benefit of doing it the other way around?
EDIT: To avoid misunderstandings:
- I am NOT making fun OF ANYONE.
- I am NOT negatively judging ANYTHING.
- I am totally open to being corrected and LEARN.
- This post is out of pure and honest CURIOSITY.
So PLEASE, don’t take it the wrong way.
I can’t say it matters to me that much what order it’s in, but that’s just the same order we say it in when fully written out. March 23, 2025. 03/23/2025.
Not an American. But I’ve heard the same explanation. And it does make sense to me.
However, why do Americans say “Fourth of July” then?
Forth of July is a forced special case that we USians have been conditioned into differentiating. Strange shit like that due to nationalism. We don’t do that for most other dates or holidays, though. Like, hardly anyone goes around routinely saying 31st of October to refer to that holiday.
Maybe the UK equivalent would be the 5th of November. (Or was that just popularized because of V For Vendetta?)
I suppose I’ve heard the Ides of March plenty, as well.
For some reason doing it that way sounds extra fancy to us. At least it does to me. More formal I guess?
Maybe it’s a language specific thing? In my native tongue March 23 sounds like a journal entry, not a normal date.