• rdri@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In a text like “the research started at 2003-01-24”, or pretty much in any other text where you need to convey all 3 elements.

    I bet you also don’t say “14 07 1789”, because that’s what MM format means.

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      1 year ago

      You bet wrong

      We write AND say “La Révolution a démarré le 14/07/1789” or “La Révolution à démarré le 14 juillet 1789”

      Spoken numbered month are usually used in an administrative context, to ease the work of our contact.

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        1 year ago

        Oh that’s right, the spoken administrative context. Same in my dd-mm-yyyy county actually. Still, I find it less intuitive than the logical yyyy-mm-dd when understanding written text.