>British date format is used just about everywhere except North America. Much like the metric system.

Eric,

AFIK in US in all states we use miles and pounds instead of kilometres and kilograms. Since I used to use metric system all my life, it's tougher for me to adopt US system. I still have to translate tempreture in Celcius from F...

Regarding dates - it's simpler to use mmddyyyy notation.