For fuck’s sake. It’s simple, really:
- DMY is much more popular than MDY, in almost all of Europe, Africa, South America, and in large parts of Asia.
- DM is a common short form of DMY when the year is not ambiguous
=> I highly doubt your assertion that MD is more popular than DM, and in fact I am certain that 1 February is a much more common way of parsing 01/02 than 2 January.
Note that none of these points require the absence of any other way of writing dates. You could indeed argue, preferably with examples and not hypotheticals, that some locales exist in which MD would be the natural way, and that they outweigh the others.
Now you can move the goalposts once more if you really need to. It really is tedious.
Note that none of these points require the absence of any other way of writing dates. You could indeed argue, preferably with examples and not hypotheticals, that some locales exist in which MD would be the natural way, and that they outweigh the others.
Now you can move the goalposts once more if you really need to. It really is tedious.