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Originally Posted by issybird
Going back to the DD/MM v. MM/DD issue upthread, that's another where Americans retained the older usage while Britain switched to the more "logical" one. However, I think the Times (London) uses the archaic form.
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Government forms are incresingly going to the date format of 20010911 for September eleventh, 2001.
Blame it on computers, the numerical equivilent of yyyymmdd sorts much easier than any other format, except of course "Julian dates". But then if we used Julian dates, only computers would know what day it is.