this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's because you're used to hearing dates said that way? Over here in DDMMYY-land, we often would say "20th of May, 2024" and that sounds equally sensical to me tbh

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

And in a lot of countries they just say 20 May, 2024. So no ordinal numbers for the day.