I've got so used to seeing the date the American way that when I'm signing up for a site and filling out my DOB im wondering why I can go above twelve on the months bit xD

To be honest with you all it shouldn't make a difference as it's more up to the countries general format.

Realistically both of them are absolutely correct as:

English (American) in word format : April 23rd 2016
English word format : 23rd of April 2016

Both of these make grammatical sense so it's more due to the formatting of the country that is used by the government.

ColdJakub wrote

Riderz wrote

Illustrated wrote Makes sense to do it that way. Not sure why we do it the way it is, but you don't HAVE to do it that way. Because we got dat FREEEDOMMM

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Love that xD
Literally Americans excuse for anything!
FREEDOM, but it doesn't make sense
American: freeeedom

OMG that is so true haha!

Not only that but have you realized that they have very little freedom in the first place???

Speak for yourself! You're just jealous.

I prefer M/D/Y myself but it really doesn't make sense haha. It would be much easier to roll with the rest of the world but I guess its america and we just like using completely different ways of measurement, because merica

Why would we write the date with the month first? Makes no sense at all we start with that day because it is the shortest time period then the month because it is larger then a day and then the year which is self explanatory why you guys do it illiterately I don't know it's a British prerogative I guess.

Edit: I was reading a users reply to another users comment on this thread talking about our only excuse is freedom well that is not factual information that's your opinion also we won our freedom from England lol and at the time England was the strongest country in the world so even if we use that excuse then we do have the right to use that one whenever we feel the need to do so also a lot of English people talk about how Americans eat McDonald's not realizing (I think anyway with the amount of ignorance the English people who usually say this have) that McDonald's is a world wide company so everyone in the world could eat it not just Americans lol weather we are fat or not that's up to the individual I eat McDonald's all the time and I'm far from fat us Americans don't go around talking about how all you guys do is drink tea because we know anyone in the world can drink tea but anyway I'm getting to side tracked just felt the need to get that off my chest.

Edit number 2: another user said Americans have very little freedom in the first place the amount of laughter that caused me is outrageous bruh where are your source I can't begin to think of things we can't do with the exceptions of things that would be illegal to do in any other country. You've guys got to realize I'm not gonna talk all nice about my country because I'm from it but globally we more then likely have the best freedoms we have the best jails as much as us Americans hate jail look at other countries watch the show locked up abroad you will see exactly what I mean also we have a country where you can be born poor and work your way up and sorry I know a lot of people are gonna hate on me for this one but we have the strongest military in the world and not only that we also have the largest money invested into our military.

Ok and I did say I wasn't gonna defend my country because it's my home country so let's look at the bad things well we have a very crooked government system (this does. My apply to our rights and freedoms before someone says because our rights and freedoms are perfectly fine) we have trump as president lol we are the largest dented nation in the world but America is retarded if we didn't provide the welfare system we did now we would probably have a lot more money and there's obviously a lot more but overall America is a pretty good country don't see why it's getting hated on by people who lost a war from it xD we earned our respect so can you please pay it?

Cuz merica

If we're throwing memes around now, why not this one since it was important in 2016 than anything else

Should be the day/month/year IMO.

It's the day of the month and the month of the year and it also makes logical sense to order them from smallest to largest.

Saying the month before the day is no different between saying the year before the month. Just doesn't make logical sense.

I don't live in America though, so it doesn't really matter to me. They can do the date however they like.

#Corruption aye but I found that odd too, like you all might as well dress backwards since you all like everything backwards.

Because we lead and don't follow the crowd.