Why do we write time and date the way we do?
Lots of the of the world writes it as Day/Month/Year.
17/3/2015
"The seventeenth of March, two thousand fifteen"
Most in the USA seem to do it as Month/Day/Year. I suppose this is the way we tend to speak it:
3/17/2015
"March seventeenth, two thousand fifteen"
In my opinion the first makes more sense because it starts small and moves to the larger measure. But neither really seem right to me. If you want to pinpoint a moment you might say:
"March 17th, 2015 at 6:15pm and 30 seconds" but that is messed up numerically speaking, no?
You're time traveling as you speak! Month, day, year, hour, minute,(no wait, it's pm, add 12 hours), seconds. It would be like saying "Two and ten and one hundred" instead of "one hundred and twelve". Numbers are arranged the way they are to make figuring manageable. Shouldn't time notation make sense too?
I think it should be written:
2015/03/17,18:15:30.