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Originally Posted by JSWolf
In that case, more countries drive on the right. So we'll get rid of driving on the left for the same reason.
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Oddly Hitler decided that in European countries he occupied and the USA did it on one Japanese Island.
The right vs left is a bogus argument.
The point isn't that everyone in USA should use the Western Europe format (some countries don't even use the Gregorian system), but that people from the less than 5% world population USA shouldn't insist their way is correct. It's an alternate way, that works locally. Internationally (a global audience) the ISO format is best, if using a Gregorian date at all.
Perhaps 10,000 should be added (approx first villages or towns rather than the wrong birth date of a famous Jewish guy), so today is 12024-08-02. There are maybe 7 or 8 calendar systems apart from the many ways of writing Gregorian dates, and a three letter month abbreviation isn't universal, nor even the name of the month.
In Ireland the modern months are:
Eanáir – January
Feabhra – February (Old Irish Fisabh)
Márta – March (Old Irish Mághta)
Aibreáin – April
Bealtaine – May
Meitheamh – June
Iúil – July
Lúnasa – August (Old Irish Lughnasadh)
Meán Fómhair – September (=middle of harvest)
Deireadh Fómhair – October (=end of harvest)
Samhain – November
Nollaig – December (=Christmas, I forget the old Irish)
The Irish ones are still in everyday use, even officially.
Days of week (English is from Norse and Roman) and month names even in Gregorian using countries do vary.
Local or national things are fine, but you can't insist they are "correct" in a Global or International sense.