>>>The date format is very odd in search filters:
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>>>26/01/2009 ???
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>>>I've seen 01/26/2009 or 2009/01/26 commonly, but dd/mm/yyyy is not something you run into very much.
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>>Well WE in GB, and many parts of Europe (I think - at least Br, Fr, Ger and It - look at VFP SET DATE formats) run into it every day. The US way is weird.
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>I agree. Both yyyy/mm/dd and dd/mm/yyyy have some logic in it, most significand/less significant/least significant or vice versa. The logic behind mm/dd/yyyy I never understood. It's like putting the second gear between the third and fourth gear in a car. :-)

Good way of putting it, yes. :-)

Luckily the UK's own "9/11" (the London bus and Tube bombings) happened on the 7th July, so we can call it 7/7 without confusing the Yanks :-)