>ANSI, YMD or Japan for me the only sensible values for set date, so all my screens start from that and only sometimes get bribed into other settings users expect - including those expecting German settings ;-)

The YMD (and the other two are just aliases for it) are the natural language settings. If your language is japanese or hungarian, though.

Why do most of the other languages speak only the calendar in such smaller-larger (or in the MDY case, larger-smaller-largest) order of units is beyond me. Ditto for putting the house number before the street.

What time is it now? Fourty eight, ten.