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Plus, it sorts naturally. Starting with the day or the month is Ludacris.

• rekoil 3y ago
  Day I can accept, even if I dislike it. Starting with the month will always make me angry. It just has no logic to it.
  • alanbernstein 3y ago
    Sure it does. It's the shortest way to specify a date within a period of a year surrounding the current day... Which means it's a date format that should only ever be spoken, not committed to written record.
    • actionfromafar 3y ago
      Month first is not even syntactically correct, even in spoken form, in some languages.