Well, you can't have 3/14 using the other notation. And I find myself wanting to defend the American notation against the "illogical" charge, since one could argue that it's perfectly logical to write down the date in the same order it would normally be said--"March fourteenth, 2009." Or does everybody else actually say "fourteenth March, 2009"?
Americans do say "the 14th of March" too, but not usually when saying the year as well. I'll grant that DMY (which is what you meant, yes?) is objectively more logical, but there is a logic behind MDY as well--it's just a different one, that of following the usual American speech pattern more closely.
Now I'm wondering if anything significant happened on March 14th in the year 159. (If I'd taken it to another decimal place, I'd have been faced by the decision of whether or not to round it.)
According to the Wikipedia, the closest is: 1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
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Well, you can't have 3/14 using the other notation. And I find myself wanting to defend the American notation against the "illogical" charge, since one could argue that it's perfectly logical to write down the date in the same order it would normally be said--"March fourteenth, 2009." Or does everybody else actually say "fourteenth March, 2009"?
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I had to explain why it was Pi Day to people who know the date as 14-3-09 though.
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I suppose our dates follow our speech patterns too, not because they go from small to large. I'd just assumed it was because it was logical. But hey.
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Now I'm wondering if anything significant happened on March 14th in the year 159. (If I'd taken it to another decimal place, I'd have been faced by the decision of whether or not to round it.)
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1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
Not wildly interesting and certainly not geeky.
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