Tim "...the funny foreign language you speak over on your side of the pond"
May I add that the US date format has always struck me as totally illogical.
US formatting : MM/DD/YY: 03/15/2011
as opposed to 2 "logical" ways for date formatting:
from day to year (European) DD/MM/YY: 15/03/2011 (or 15-03-2011)
or from year to day (from a mathematical point of view, e.g. for date sorting): YY/MM/DD: 2011/03/15 or 2011-03-15
Joseph