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[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In what text?

In French we say “14 juillet 1789”

We don’t even say “nth day of”

[-] rdri@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

In a text like "the research started at 2003-01-24", or pretty much in any other text where you need to convey all 3 elements.

I bet you also don't say "14 07 1789", because that's what MM format means.

[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You bet wrong

We write AND say “La Révolution a démarré le 14/07/1789” or “La Révolution à démarré le 14 juillet 1789”

Spoken numbered month are usually used in an administrative context, to ease the work of our contact.

[-] rdri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's right, the spoken administrative context. Same in my dd-mm-yyyy county actually. Still, I find it less intuitive than the logical yyyy-mm-dd when understanding written text.

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