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If I'm dating (naming) a document for filing in the computer I'll often use year/month/day because 1. a file name can't have "/" and 2. this keeps dated docs in numerical order (eg. a file named "thingy 20220102" would be listed above or below "thingy 20220101") Way back in primary school I was taught to write long hand dates as 1 January 2022 (or 1st January 2022), but when read aloud it should be said "the first of January two thousand and twenty two." So, it makes sense the shorthand version would be 1/1/2022. (Or even 1/1/22) I always thought it odd that both the longhand and shorthand in the US put the month first.

The same reason we don't use the metric system?