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Symbiote on Feb 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Palindrome Day 20200202

I think the only major language using the M, D, Y spoken order are American-influenced English and Ewe (Ghana etc).

Several countries write a short data as M/D/Y, but these mostly have a significant American influence.

thaumasiotes on Feb 3, 2020 [–]

The claim was "almost every country in the world uses d/m/y in normal usage", which doesn't pass the laugh test.

It wasn't "almost every country in the world doesn't use m/d/y", even if you would have liked it to be.

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