That's very language dependant. I'm basque and we say things naturally. We do skip the year if it's not relevant, but when we do say it, it comes first always.

Urtarrilak 2.
2025eko urtarrilak 2.

In Spanish however it's dd-mm-yyyy and sounds perfectly natural.

2 de Enero.
2 de enero de 2025

You saying that your way sounds most natural when spoken is very pretentious because you assume that whats familiar to you is what's most natural overall, but that's just a generalisation of your own customs.

[–] expr@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not pretentious if someone doesn't know better.

[–] apodoapodo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm sure it wasn't the intention, but it did come acoss that way

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Assuming there's no better way is plenty preferentious to me, we ought to be more humble than that.