Blurb - Crackpot American Date Format

It's a complete surprise to the rest of the world that the Americans write the date in the format "month/day/year" instead of "day/month/year" like anyone else. So "9/11" is in fact September the eleventh, and not the ninth of november. Apart from being as preposterous as writing the time as "minute:hour:second", this causes enormous problems if you work in an organisation which must function multinationally. Far more confusion is caused by the crackpot American date formats than any international dot/comma differences in numeric denominations.

The only useful thing about this is that some Americans remain blissfully unaware that they're the only people using this ingenious format, which enabled me to drink in the US for the five months preceeding my twenty-first birthday due to having "5/10/75" written on my passport as my date of birth.