>>So if I ask you when you where born would you tell me year then month then day ?
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>Probably not, but only because that's the way we're conditioned. Ok, I hand you a pile of calendars. Do you open each one up and check the day, then discover that it's the wrong month, so you check the month, and then discovering it's the wrong year, go on to the second calendar in the pile and repeat the process? Or do you go to the proper year, open it to the proper month, and then to the day?
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>Which way makes more sense.

To whom? A situation where someone hands you a stack of calendars or the more likely one where the common practice is applicable? What an incredible inane argument. So, of course, I feel the need to join in...