I'll do my best to fix my language as soon as you fix your units.
Your units suck.
Your units suck.
I need y'all to just use U.S English combined with ISO dates and metric units. Thanks.
Now we just need to get 7.2 billion minus 2 people on-board.
I'm Dutch and trying to push for YYYY-MM-DD because it's the only format that makes sense when sorting. Classmates have a lot of trouble with it and still put "Notes 18-10.docx" in a directory full of "Notes 2014-10-18.odt"-like files.
Though I would be pretty fine with DD-MM-YYYY, at least be consistent... The only format that I really object to is the American MM/DD/YYYY format.
MM/DD/YYYY -> "October 19th"
Americans typically would say the latter, so it is consistent in that sense.
A reasonable (i.e. sortable) date format is 2014/10/19 but that would make sense in spoken form only as "2014, October 19th" which doesn't sound quite right.
A sidenote: in northern europe (Germany, Sweden etc.) we do it wrong on addresses: [Street, Number, PostalCode, City/Region, Country]. Going from smallest to largest context is actually done correctly in english [Number, Street, PostalCode, City/Region, Country]. You can sort addresses lexically!