>Please reply to this message by 05.10.2023 to let us know that you received it and intend to make the applicable changes.
How effing arrogant do you have to be to say something like this? No "please respond and we can talk about it", it's "please confirm you know we're the big guys, and you're going to do what we say".
It's clearly intended to be 5th of October, 2023.
(This may or may not be sarcasm, in case people may not or may misunderstand)
It's one of those things that America inherited from England, and then when England changed its method, the Americans saw no need to change because it wasn't part of England anymore.†
If you go into antiques stores in England, you will find that with items that are engraved, the older it is, the more likely it will have the now-American date format.
There was an item on Antiques Roadshow a couple of months ago that was a gift from Queen Victoria to someone that had an engraving that included the American date format.
† This is true for a surprising number of minor differences between America and England. In life, it's often better to understand the history of things, rather than just ignorantly write off a group of people as bizarre.
Then again, we write our dates in a more sensible manner. I suppose it's time to link to the old sapir whorf hypothesis[0] to explain the difference.
By that logic, all formatted dates should follow a progression of precision. This is, in fact, a standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
yawn
Yeah we write our dates in a more sensible manner too. And also we drive on the correct side of the road and imperial units of measurement are superior.
for example a 10cm cube filled with water weighs 1 kilo and is 1 liter, boils at 100 degrees. In the US you deal with cups pints, quarts, gallons... and you can't even convert easily between dry and liquid stuff
I do agree that steering wheels should be on the left :-)
Electronics is full of imperial standards.
Usage of "Mil" in PCB design ( 1/1000th of an inch ).
If you look into an average computer or electronics device, lots and lots of stuff is imperial.
Should be for October 5, according to that format.
For most of the world, using slashes also implies DD/MM/YYYY. For instance, I would write today's date as 17/05/2023.
Somebody should check if those days are generally associated with fewer accidents, higher stock returns and a pronounced sense of global peace and harmony