Explain This America

You speak the wrong English.

Try telling that to a sorting algorithm

You do your best

When you sort YYMMDDHHMM alphabetically, you get a chronological sort. Oldest at one end, newest at the other. DDMMYY doesn't have that benefit.

Or you can sort by...you know...date.

Do that by hand...

I was going to make a Monty Python reference but that's already been done.

Sort anything by anything by hand.

@knickles wins

DD/MM/YY you see the most significant number first while looking at something already ordered.
The number that changes most often, and the number you use as a precision reference.
The day.

If you are sorting from scratch, you can always just look at the rightmost number first. It's not hard.

Nice clip from an AMERICAN movie
im not entirely convinced you've caught on

Basically blind patriotism is an unhealthy practice but **** if we're not the mother ******* best at it. Get learned, other countries.

And that´s all for today folks