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What is your idea of perfect date? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by pooky55@lemm.ee to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dont know if it's true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

My guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.