It must have been very confusing indeed!

I don't understand if you question is meant to be sarcasm?

Then again, if you are discussing some celebrity child, why not ask nitpicky questions. Besides, the nitpicky question often includes fascinating models of linguistics/history/philosophy, the child does not.

I know that Americans use that in the military it is just kind of weird to have your time referred to as military time especially as most Europeans don't like the military.

I suppose most people are happy in other people being curious about their customs, non?

I understand that about the French class but why the science classes?

I had no idea!

I was only once in Vancouver but - please forgive me - I was absoluteyl delighted how polite everybody was on the bus. Everybody was saying freaking goodbye and thank you to the bus driver. I thought, whoa, Canada is a great country.

Simple solution?

You could open up a debate how none of these is inherently logical since they are based on a Western model of logic but my initial question was, hey, Americans, tell me the logical/historical/linguistic reason for this since you are the experts.

That's what you would think. As a rule of thumb:

Now it would be fascinating to learn how and why that changed.

Why did I know without question that you are a gawker poster?

That's an interesting question.

I didn't not know they used to do that!

Oh that must be so frustrating!

I don't know. I'm not an English speaker. But as far as I know, the US is in the minority of using the month/date/year formatting. For my own language 27th of December, 2014 would be the correct way.

I'm not American ;) but I think that speaks to a capitalist class divide. Let's keep the people down below ignorant, the people in the middle striving to know better to get up there and the people on top knowing that they don't need to know as long as they are on top (rich people tend to be just as ignorant , just in…

I'm not upset. I find it sociologically and psychologically interesting. As for example the explanation that many Americans are very unaware of life outside of the US and are often confined to reacting in that mind frame of not understanding other cultures.

Oh wait, the British do it differently??