Yeah, I don’t understand why Americans (and notebookcheck) still use MM-DD-YYYY.
I’d agree that yyy.mm.dd is probably the best for sorting reasons, but imo dd.mm.yyyy also has at least some logic in an everyday setting. Usually the order of relevance for everyday appointments is the day, then month, then year. Oftentimes the year has no informational value at all, since it is implied, e.g. for an upcoming birthday.
If you have an appointment you’ll need to know the month, so putting month first makes more sense.
yyyy.mm.dd does honestly makes by far the most sense. That being said, north america switching to day first would already be a massive achievement.
I had emails from CVS (American pharmacy store) about vaccination records recently and noticed this
Administration date 2024-10-25
First time I’ve seen dates used like that in a public-facing context. The birth dates were in that form, too.
The US uses metric measures in many places, too. Usually medical, but even things such as phone thickness are announced in ml.
