Quote Originally Posted by Ryllharu View Post
We may be one the few countries to use it, but it isn't stupid. It's quite sensible when you think about it.

It's the more common way one verbalizes the date. 02/03/2010 becomes "February 3rd, 2010." The European way is, "The 3rd of February, 2010." It is rarer (and more formalized) to use the latter way in speech.
That's silly, now you are comparing the "European way" to everyone speaking english.
There is no "The DD of MM, YY" in my native language, it's just "3 february 2010". Sounds a bit weird in English, but perfectly fine otherwise, in fact it sounds much much weirder if anyone here would say MM/DD/YY.

Also it is stupid in the sense that MM/DD/YY has a very messed up order of magnitude. It's like having a timer that goes HH/SS/MM.