Explain This America

Your government is still officially only using imperial.
Along with other world leaders like Liberia and Burma.

typical european, dodging the question. maybe when you put a man on the moon or get a black president, we'll take your silly rules seriously.

It's most efficient to have the most important dating numbers first.

Since years or quarters of years are generally filed together the number is almost irrelevant and last.
Months are important because it is the largest significant number in the
Days are more important once you know the month, because you need to know what part of the month.

Now all these numbers are handled by computers and the order is less relevant, so it's easy to just stick to tradition.

America is a country dominated by the efficient people winning. The government didn't create the standard, successful businesses did. And that's why we use it.

'MURICA

I don't know, what's it like living in a country where Republicans is a thing?

Let me guess, you believe in global warming and evolution too you dirty hippie?
Stop turning to your 'science' and 'math' and 'facts' and start reading the bible sinner.

Feels pretty good. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be allowed to buy a gun for when China and North Korea invade.

I thought the idea of owning a Gun in the Redneck Guide to Owning a Gun was to defend against the government.

That probably means any government there is.

That, invaders, and pesky natives

We one-upped you there. We had a female prime minister. Also Russia beat you at practically everything space-related except landing on the moon.

Australia was barely affected by the GFC compared to other countries and we use DD/MM/YY(YY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

edit: fixed

Link is broken, there's a semicolon at the end that doesn't belong there.

I meant when the system was made, these were the reasons. I also said that it doesn't matter now, which is why there was no change made to the system.

^^ that.

Ok, I'll let you have it. Now explain the imperial system.

Anything other than YMDHM is plain silly. You should display your date/time like normal people: 201403242330

There's nothing wrong with DD/MM/YY(YY).

Ask the british about why that was made that way, we got it from them.

We just never managed to make the switch because changing regulations costs money. America has tried multiple times to switch to metric and each time it led to ridiculous amounts in losses.

BUT YOU THREW OUT LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE THAT CONNECTED YOU WITH THE BRITISH!

We speak English.