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> And the American format just makes no sense

> Maybe the European date format is better because the elements are in the order of relevance? > ... when we’re talking about events occuring on a day-to-day basis, however I can think of numerous cases when the year and the month are more relevant

I think that's the "sense" of the American one. It optimizes "metal sort" for month.



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