I often hear complaints in the US about the date formats, similar to the resistance to moving to the metric system. Americans typically use the numerical date format 12/5/2012 for today, while much of the rest of the world has adopted the ISO 8601 international standard of YYYY MM DD. If you think of the scale of specificity and it makes sense. If a company or group were only operating in the US, it might be acceptable to revert to non-standard or legacy formats. Since we now have a global economy, it's probably better to just learn the standard rather than to hold on to outdated formats (pardon the pun). Time to join the modern age, America.
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