On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 09:00 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: >> Of course, I wouldn't want to force our European friends to use >> that format, since that's not what they're used to, but I also don't >> like having to use the European format since it's not what *I* am used >> to. :-) > > Just to be pedantic, what you call the "European" format is actually the > "everywhere else in the world except the US" format :-) Don's "I can be a bigger pedant than you" hat... what you call the "European" format is actually the "everywhere else in the world except for _most_ of the US" format :-)) Parts of the US government use DD/MM/YYYY. All customs and immigration forms that I have seen are in that form. This is presumably a tip of that hat to the rest of the world.
