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You guys write your dates funny. 5/29/05, indeed... Writing the smallest unit of measurement (the days) in the middle, the next largest (the months) up-front and then ending with the year makes perfectly no sense to me. It's almost as if you changed it just to be different following the War Of Independence!

However all official government paperwork here, such as immigration papers or the visa waiver you fill in when you first come to America, uses the British system of dd/mm/yy. I can only guess that they printed in bulk before 1775 and we're still working through that inventory.

There should be a movement, like that for New Earth Time, to get everything in the right order. In Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex they do just that. At the time of writing it's 2005-4-29-17-04-36, Stand Alone Complex-style. Ain't that right, Major?



Fine. Be like that. No matter what system you use, it's always Hammer Time.