Hoxsie, Howard wrote:

>That's an interesting question.  My opinion is that MDY makes sense in
>that it represents actual speech, such as February (M), 21st (D), 1963
>(Y), as though you were in conversation about a fully qualified date.

>It sounds a little funny to me to say 21st February, 1963 in
>conversation, unless you are working in the Pentagon, or maybe MI6.
===
It doesn't sound so funny if you use "the" & "of", as in "the 4th of July".

The problem comes when you have an ambiguous date such as "04/05/06" and you 
have to know where the creator comes from before you can decide whether it 
means April 5th or May 4th. The ordered sequence D/M/Y makes sense in any 
case regardless of the way the date is spoken in one particular 
country/language.

Bruce

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