I think it was primarily a verbal ordering, that later became commonplace written down in the US. If it was written down in that order elsewhere, it would have been with the full text, ie. “July 4th, 1776”. Never something like “07/04/1776”, which I believe was an American invention.
Don’t go with this psycho! He mixes European style order with US style punctuation.
Standard in Australia. And common in the UK (it’s traditionally a dot, but slash is more common now).
But I’m team ISO-8601 when there’s a chance of an international audience. At least where locale information can’t be used.
US style punctation?
I mean slashes
/instead of colons.Talking of colons, both of those “formats” are pulled from one
That’s not a colon. Both are commonly in use in Europe. USA just switched the d/m
Is it really switching if that was the way it was traditionally done and they just kept doing it that way?
I think it was primarily a verbal ordering, that later became commonplace written down in the US. If it was written down in that order elsewhere, it would have been with the full text, ie. “July 4th, 1776”. Never something like “07/04/1776”, which I believe was an American invention.
Ohh
common in Belgium, probably other countries too