>>>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.

Maths? What maths, the set theory, differential geometry, topology, functional analysis...? Nope, they can live without any units of measure whatsoever, not interested in them at all.

No man, it's about every other unit of anything in your grocery. Give me 200g and 5kg of... It's five minutes and six hours after midnight... the temperature is point two and twenty two degrees, our longitude is six seconds, thirty minutes and twenty six degrees... what?

The matter is the language, the way we pronounce dates. Hungarian language would call this date, twothousandeighth year, october thirtyfirst. Because that's how they speak (kétezernyolcodik év, oktober harmincegyedik). That we have chosen a different order of speaking in pretty much any other language is such an exception that I can't explain by any other means than "it being a language, it contains more history than logic".