Pi Day is celebrated March 14th (3/14)... http://www.piday.org

jon-wood · on March 15, 2016

Or as the rest of the world calls it 14/3. International Pi Day is celebrated on the 22nd of July.

bitwize · on March 15, 2016

Western Europe != world. China, Japan, and perhaps other Asian countries use YMD format. (Which imho is God's chosen format, since it sorts trivially.)

jon-wood · on March 15, 2016

I had no idea that was the case, but what do I have to do to emigrate there?

_lce0 · on March 15, 2016

Or in November, in the 314st day of the year

daemin · on March 15, 2016

Only in the USA (and where such an absurd date formatting is used).

carlob · on March 15, 2016

Hungary uses YYYY/MM/DD which is my favorite, because it's consistent with the endianness of numbers.

oliwarner · on March 15, 2016

Good for them. I wish everybody would move to ISO 8601 formatted (ideally UTC-offset) dates and times.

ekianjo · on March 15, 2016

This is practical for file archiving on a computer.

nkrisc · on March 15, 2016

Inconvenient for computing and manipulating data, for sure, but not absurd. It matches nicely with what is a common pattern of speech in American English when talking about dates. We more often say, "March sixteenth, [2016]" instead of "The sixteenth of March, [2016]."

Besides, neither US nor Europe have it right. YYYY-MM-DD is the way to go.