Like many things, differnet places in the world do things differently: dates are no different.
In the U.S. if you were going to write January 10, 2013 you would write 1-10-13.
If you were to live in Europe you would write it as 10-1-13 (If you just moved to Europe and you didn't know there was a difference you could end up wondering why a grocery store would sell products that were way past their expiration date - when they would indeed be fine).
Here in Japan it is different yet, here they start with the year and then go to the month and day. You would write the same date I mentioned before as 2013-1-10.
Something you may never think of when you think of another country but something I thought was worth sharing.
In the U.S. if you were going to write January 10, 2013 you would write 1-10-13.
If you were to live in Europe you would write it as 10-1-13 (If you just moved to Europe and you didn't know there was a difference you could end up wondering why a grocery store would sell products that were way past their expiration date - when they would indeed be fine).
Here in Japan it is different yet, here they start with the year and then go to the month and day. You would write the same date I mentioned before as 2013-1-10.
Something you may never think of when you think of another country but something I thought was worth sharing.
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