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so both sides are historic and based on what side was needed based on riding horses and useless and meaningless to cars but traditional at the time

if you write out the date completely, how would you write it?

would you say August 12, 2005? So then that became in short hand 08/12/2005

the problem is that it is based on language and so not universal. So for instance here where people grew up and tend to use different languages constantly in can get complicated with the Anglophone way being 08/12/2005 and francophone being 12/08/2005 based on language. That is why many have started using 2005/08/12 since it is obvious it is neither and not based on any language