Until a few years ago I had no idea there even was a Pi Day. Because we never write the month first; it's either day/month/year or year/month/day. Usually the first (and in daily shorthand it's day/month). I never understood this American way of writing the dates, as it doesn't make sense to me. If I were to sort anything by size, I would sort small, medium and large - no medium, small and large. Do you have any idea where this came from?
I actually think I only heard of Pi Day last year.
I first learned to write the date with the month written out as a word: March 14, 2014. The order we write an all numeric date in America seemed to match that so I didn't question it until I joined the US Navy and I learned that the military services do it in order smallest to largest. And by the way, when the military writes the month or its letter initials, they still do it in that order: 14Mar2014. (The US Military also uses the 24 hour clock, which the Admiral and I both prefer, but confuses our civilian neighbors when we say things like, "I took the 1330 yoga class.").
I have no idea why Americans have adopted this way of writing dates other than it matches how we say the date, "March fourteenth." is much more commonly used than, "The fourteenth of March." And probably a little more efficient grammatically, though Ides of March does have a poetic ring to it.
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I first learned to write the date with the month written out as a word: March 14, 2014. The order we write an all numeric date in America seemed to match that so I didn't question it until I joined the US Navy and I learned that the military services do it in order smallest to largest. And by the way, when the military writes the month or its letter initials, they still do it in that order: 14Mar2014. (The US Military also uses the 24 hour clock, which the Admiral and I both prefer, but confuses our civilian neighbors when we say things like, "I took the 1330 yoga class.").
I have no idea why Americans have adopted this way of writing dates other than it matches how we say the date, "March fourteenth." is much more commonly used than, "The fourteenth of March." And probably a little more efficient grammatically, though Ides of March does have a poetic ring to it.
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