My Canadian boss yelled at my crazy American ways again yesterday, for the way we write the date (the title of the entry is what he actually said. I had no idea what he was referring to at first).
America writes the date: July 16, 2008.
Canada and Europe writes the date: 16 July, 2008.
He tried to change my naughty ways, and explained that in a decade there are 120 "16th", 10 July's, and only 1 2008. So we should be writing the date in descending order of how often the numbers appear in a decade.
I'll concede that the Canadian way does make more sense, but I'm not changing my ways now. I'm a stubborn Ugly American. I do find the tiny culture differences fascinating though. How did every western country start doing something one way, except one? America writes the date "weird," England drives on the "wrong" side of the road. What happened in history to account for these differences?
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Or, you know, we write the date as we say the date. "Hey Cory, what's today's date?" "Oh, Diane, it's 16 July." "Cory, you need to go back to Canada. I'll call INS."
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