Re: Date of birth
So you say all your dates (xxxx, mm dd)?
What about all the hispanics and so on that say "dd de mm, yy" (or simply English who say "ddth of mm, yyyy")?
Anyway, the mm/dd/yyyy format is consistent with Americans and many other English speakers who say "mm ddth, yyyy".
The ISO date format is as much a mishmash of letters and dashes as any other date format. The ONLY reason it's so useful in computers is that it AUTOMATICALLY sorts dates chronologically if you perform a simple ASCII sort (to the second if you use the extended format which includes a 24-hour time).
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