I do the same in Germany and get a few odd looks as well. Strangely though, ISO 8601 was the only official date format here between 1995 and 2001. After that th

I do the same in Germany and get a few odd looks as well. Strangely though, ISO 8601 was the only official date format here between 1995 and 2001. After that the old DD.MM.YYYY format was allowed again "if the context is unambiguous". I still get questions on why I fill out dates in forms in the sane format, though.