There are many date formats.

In general the U.S. uses mm/dd/yy (did we learn nothing from Y2K?)

Europe tends to use dd/mm/yy which makes slightly more sense to me (LSD to MSD).

If you do any business between the two, this is very confusing up to the twelvth day of any month. So years ago I learned to spell out the month.

If you scan every document that passes through your hands and have any sense of organization you will notice that your filenames are scrambled by your operating system. A friend of mine suggested year-first to sort them all out. So from MSD (Most significant digits) to Least it would be YYYY/MMM/DD. Alas, this is the one format not supported by the operating system.

If you think Y2K was bad wait until Y10K. "But that is a long time from now!" That is just what they were saying about Y2K in the sixties.

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