Europeans put their dates backwards to convey the impression that musicians get very sentimental
Why else would Kylie Minogue play Dublin almost exactly a month apart, one night a month, month after month? What the hell kind of concert tour is that?
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 1:13, 1 reply)

It is the Americans who are wrong here.
There is no problem with, for example, the Japanese way of listing year, month, day or the European way of listing day, month, year because these are simply listing in order of significance -- the American way is muddled, wrong and hard to deal with.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 15:57, closed)

Hurrah hooray!
I totally agree. I can usually cope with the US way of writing dates, so long as the day number is larger than twelve. If it's 1-12 I start having a problem working out which month they're referring to :/

Is there an actual reason to put month, day, year? Or was it random chocie.
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 17:31, closed)

it wasn't a random chocie, its just that we're used to saying december 4th, 2001
instead of 4th of december, 2011
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 21:18, closed)

Japan=logic
year,month,day,hour,minute,second

...duh!
(CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Sat 3 Dec 2011, 17:32, closed)

Yeah, have to agree.
I think the Japanese way is most logical, followed by the European then the US coming in last.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 4 Dec 2011, 15:34, closed)