Just in case your interested

[Pollux.Castor]

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 AM in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

[ChrisRLG]

Unless you are in the UK when you will need to wait till the 4th May.

Those silly yanks put the day of the month in the wrong place - should be day month year, not month day year.

But they always did do things funny.

[amateur]

Those silly yanks put the day of the month in the wrong place - should be day month year, not month day year.

This "silly yank" here agrees with you. Haven't fully switched to the metric system yet either. We will one day..............

[Pollux.Castor]

I agree, M/D/Y is strange, the least significant number is in the middle. what would actually make more sense is Y/M/D. Would make sorting by date much easier.

[TonyDevil]

as a techie/programmer/databasey kinda guy, i only ever use
ccyy-mm-dd (& if needed hh:mi:ss)

which is a close as i can get to ANSI standard whilst using punctuation to make it readable by a human bean.

using different formats is a right pain to code, especially when you're running it through a cobol program which is looking at trillions of iterations(passes thru the code).

once you've been through an exercise of making a 10k line program like this more efficient you tend to change your ways a little.

...and dont even get me started on people using 2 digit years instead of 4 GRRRRrrrrr
but it did keep me employed for a couple of years modifying programs to be Y2K compliant.

apologies to any non techies reading this.