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That doesn't matter quite as much, mainly the inconsistent month/day/year system is quite confusing. Note that the ISO time standard does use YYYY-MM-DD.

ISO is big endian, conventional rest-of-world is little endian, and the USA is mid endian.

That really doesn't seem easier at all...

Especially when it's MMDDYYYY ;]

ISO 8601[1] to the rescue!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601