dd/mm/yyyy is the way to go, imo

[Ric]

Originally Posted by The Germanator

I think the weirdness just becomes with the muscle memory of writing it the way we do. For whatever reason I was taught to write 8/15/85 for the date above, and if I saw it as 15/8/85 it would take me a second because my brain doesn't immediately recognize that pattern. I understand why both sides think the other is strange, mainly because we didn't learn it that way.

EDIT: Mana stole my thunder, whoops. Heh.

I would have to agree. It's like you say, you just have to think about it for a few seconds more.

Just to clear something up, if asked my 'Date Of Birth' I would say The Second of the Seventh.
If asked 'when is my birthday' I would either say The Second Of July (which is the correct way) or July The Second (which is actually a slang/bad english way of saying it.) I speak two languages, English and Bad English