On 9/11/2011 6:19 PM, Karl Townsend wrote:
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As a side question what is the background to the US date system of
month/day/year as it seems nonsensical to me, I lived with it for 12
years when in the US, but ascending or descending precedence make
sense but mixed precedence seems bizarre.

if you thinks that's bad, you should see our system of weights and
measures.

Are you kidding? He's from the UK -- we got that system from him in the
first place! (Well, from his ancestors, anyway...)