• thejoker954@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Dont know if it’s true or not, but I always assumed it was because the numbers get bigger left to right. Only 12 months, 30ish days, thousands of years.

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      3 months ago

      My guess is it’s because that’s the order in which we usually say dates in English: September twentieth, twenty-twenty-four.