>>> The "Not made here" syndrom.
>>> USA is proud of its own system.
>>
>> Ah. Is /that/ why they're the only country on Earth who can't write the
>> date in any consistent order?
>
> From a rational point of view, the widespread day-month-year ordering
> is only marginally more consistent than the american month-day-year
> ordering.
>
> The only truly consistent ordering is the still uncommon ISO
> year-month-date ordering ("2011-10-04"): Digits are listed in order of
> descending significance (big-endian) throughout.
>
> Little-endian throughout ("40-01-1102") would be just as consistent in
> itself, but inconsistent with traditional numerical notation.

Working from largest to smallest is consistent. Working from smallest to 
largest is consistent (although it clashes somewhat with normal 
numerical notation). Listing middle then smallest then largest is just 
retarded. It makes no logical sense at all.

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