<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by USAFAN:
mm/dd/yyyy is fine with me!
George W. may talk Tony B. in changing this in the UK too. 
Actually, driving on the "wrong" side is a little more confusing to me...</font>
Remember that
61 countries (one third of the world's population) drive on the left, whereas only one country writes its dates as month-day-year. :-)