OT: Date format: Was: Re: Mails not from me

[Chris Jones]

> Actually, that's just the Canadian format - so what if it makes a lot
> of sense?  I think the standard European date format of dd-mm-yyyy to
> be absurd, but, to be fair, no more absurd than our mm-dd-yyyy, which
> makes no sense at all.

The only systems that makes sense to me are

dd-mm-yy

or

yy-mm-dd

i.e increasing or decreasing size of time unit. 

Anything is is just perverse to me.

Chris