Notices by a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)

Taika Waititi said "We're Wolves is the film that Jemaine and I keep pretending that we’re making. Every couple of years we say, we’re making this new film called We're Wolves which follows the werewolves from the film,” said Waititi. “I feel bad to even mention it now because we keep saying it [ . . . ] We would like nothing more but we have a lot of shit going on. When are you going to die? Do you have a ... deadline before your death? I guarantee it before then. Five years, 10 years? It took us seven years to write the [first] film, so you do the math. That was a sad thing to say."

from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”)

I have been working with a collection of mid-18th to early 19th-century English correspondence, and the mm/dd/yyyy format is used on occasion. Sometimes the same person will date a letter, say, 4/10/1797 (for April 10th), and the next letter will be 12/4 (for April 12th). I'd previously had no idea that this format was in use so long ago (mm/dd or exclusively numbers).

[ . . . ] Top-level comments need to be substantiated, historical answers to the question and the rest need to be reasonably on-topic. Not layman speculation. Not which arbitrary standard is best. Not so-and-so uses so-and-so.

I hate to be so stern about it but seriously... 120 of 160 comments [deleted].

When did the USA originally start using the mm/dd/yyyy format and for what reason?