God how I hate it that the blinkin' Americans have to make up their own date system just to be different from the English!
So do the English go around saying "It's 27 April today"? I find it makes much more sense to say "It's April 27th today", so it makes much more sense to write that. It's the English that are backwards on this issue. But they're the ones always repeating themselves with things like "I say, I say it's 27 April today." No wonder everyone leaves and starts their own colony.
In the United States, dates are traditionally written in the "month day year" order [in the United Kingdom] Dates are written traditionally in "day month year" order, using a slash as the separator For a more complete list, check the Wikipedias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country
Considering England invented the english language that was taken to America I've always found it odd why the US does the date backwards when the ddmmyy format had been in use for many many years prior. Then again why did our cousins across the pond feel it necessary to rewrite the Collins dictionary and mispell alot of it? Is it true Webster was iliterate?
