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I have been working with a collection of mid-18th to early 19th-century English correspondence, and the mm\/dd\/yyyy format is used on occasion. Sometimes the same person will date a letter, say, 4\/10\/1797 (for April 10th), and the next letter will be 12\/4 (for April 12th). I'd previously had no idea that this format was in use so long ago (mm\/dd or exclusively numbers).farside.link\/teddit\/r\/AskHisto\u2026<\/a>","generator":{"id":"tag:chirp.cooleysekula.net,2024-03-28:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/objects\/0b6b25a8-1262-872a-06bf-1ff834390669","object":{"id":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/objects\/0b6b25a8-1262-872a-06bf-1ff834390669","objectType":"note","content":"In the 40 remaining comments there are some interesting and surprising finds. In particular, mm\/dd\/yyyy, with digits, was not introduced with computers, contrary to what many are assuming:
I have been working with a collection of mid-18th to early 19th-century English correspondence, and the mm\/dd\/yyyy format is used on occasion. Sometimes the same person will date a letter, say, 4\/10\/1797 (for April 10th), and the next letter will be 12\/4 (for April 12th). I'd previously had no idea that this format was in use so long ago (mm\/dd or exclusively numbers).farside.link\/teddit\/r\/AskHisto\u2026<\/a>","url":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/display\/0b6b25a8-1262-872a-06bf-1ff834390669","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/objects\/0b6b25a8-1862-8724-7528-500388056679","url":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/display\/0b6b25a8-1862-8724-7528-500388056679"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:chirp.cooleysekula.net,2022-05-20:objectType=thread:nonce=b8b8fc438d817e19","notice_info":{"local_id":"327154","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2022-05-20T05:41:33+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"Chirp!","url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/display\/0b6b25a8-1262-872a-06bf-1ff834390669"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/profile\/clacke","displayName":"Santa Claes \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\udf85","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/avatar\/7257-96-20211225112046.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/avatar\/7257-48-20211225111907.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/avatar\/7257-24-20211225115154.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"7257"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/avatar\/7257-96-20211225112046.jpeg","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/jpeg","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"nil","url":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/profile\/clacke","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"clacke","displayName":"Santa Claes \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\udf85","note":"nil"}},"content":"It's not just on fedi:[ . . . ] Top-level comments need to be substantiated, historical answers to the question and the rest need to be reasonably on-topic. Not layman speculation. Not which arbitrary standard is best. Not so-and-so uses so-and-so.
I hate to be so stern about it but seriously... 120 of 160 comments [deleted].The question?
When did the USA originally start using the mm\/dd\/yyyy format and for what reason?farside.link\/teddit\/r\/AskHisto\u2026<\/a>","generator":{"id":"tag:chirp.cooleysekula.net,2024-03-28:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/objects\/0b6b25a8-1862-8724-7528-500388056679","object":{"id":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/objects\/0b6b25a8-1862-8724-7528-500388056679","objectType":"note","content":"It's not just on fedi:[ . . . ] Top-level comments need to be substantiated, historical answers to the question and the rest need to be reasonably on-topic. Not layman speculation. Not which arbitrary standard is best. Not so-and-so uses so-and-so.
I hate to be so stern about it but seriously... 120 of 160 comments [deleted].The question?
When did the USA originally start using the mm\/dd\/yyyy format and for what reason?farside.link\/teddit\/r\/AskHisto\u2026<\/a>","url":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/display\/0b6b25a8-1862-8724-7528-500388056679","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:chirp.cooleysekula.net,2022-05-20:objectType=thread:nonce=b8b8fc438d817e19","notice_info":{"local_id":"327132","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2022-05-20T05:18:09+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"Chirp!","url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/libranet.de\/display\/0b6b25a8-1862-8724-7528-500388056679"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/chirp.cooleysekula.net\/conversation\/215357","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}