>>>>Unless Belize or Kenya changed recently, they too use mm/dd/yyyy. Also Puerto Rico, Phillipines, (I think all territories, common wealths, and possessions do, but not sure).
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>>>>Some places in Canada used to use mm/dd/yyyy. I saw it myself on numerous occasions visiting Canada. I guess that changed across Canada during the last few years though.
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>>>It depends entirely on what you were looking at. In the programs we do here, I normally use mm/dd/yyyy because it seems to be creeping into the culture more (of course, I make it clear - ie - Date (mm/dd/yyyy):, but governments, official bodies etc still use dd/mm/yyyy. Officially, Canada is dd/mm/yyyy.
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>>>I think the world should definitely go yyyy/mm/dd which we all know is the only sensible way to do it.
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>>In what way is it "the only sensible way to do it."?
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>>We think in terms of the days passing, within the months (passing) within years
>>Steps within steps - seems most logical to me.
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>>If you're referring to the date format being used in maths functions then maybe y/m/d is more sensible, but the average Joe isn't using the format for that.
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>True, but military dates are yyyy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yyyy. Usually yyyy/mm/dd though. They get used to it :o)
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No problem. They're all going to be decommissioned in January anyway ;-) (Just trying to raise Mr. Harvey's blood pressure a few more ticks....)
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