<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by 777Brit:
Alternatively, the US could just play with the majority of the rest of the world and go with the DDMMYY or DDMMYYYY or DDMMMYY or DDMMMYYYY format. The key is the DAY comes before the MONTH which comes before the YEAR.
Everyone got that now?
Class dismissed... 
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The ascending order of precedence makes great sense to me but to avoid confusion at least the CCYYMMDD format cannot be mis-interpreted which does make it better to use imo. Is 07/03/03 the 3rd of July or the 7th March?
Dave