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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (39 children)

I regularly work with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans. So many times each group defaults to their own format and mistakes occur I gave up on all the formats listed by OP. If i have to write a date in correspondence its like: Feb 27th 2013. No ambiguity. No one has ever challenged me on it either. It is universally understood.

[–] mr_satan@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, I can't fucking rember which English month is which. April, May, July and Autum is just a grey mass to me.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Autumn is a season lol

I think you mean August.

September, October, November and December are easy to remember because they're Roman numbers. 7-10 But two off because at some point they added July and August to honor Julius Augustus. So "month seven" is the 9th month.

[–] mr_satan@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Honestly I do remember some months, like starting and ending of the year. I don't encounter English month names on a regular enough basis to remember their order and my month names in no way relate to English ones.

So anything after February and before August I have to google each time I encounter them.

It doesn't help that we don't even have month abbreviations like English does (Jan, Feb, etc.).

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