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Silly non American.  Everybody knows it makes far more sense to go from small max number to large max number when specifying a date, (eg, 12/31/infinite) and not small unit of time to large unit of time.(eg day.month.year)

(Though, it does make me wonder.  Do they typically say "1st of October" in the U.K., or "October 1st"?)

U.S. is typically the latter, (which is probably more accurately where the date order comes from) but most other European languages, AFAIK, only really support the former as far as general structure goes, so I expect U.K. being so much closer to said other language speaking countries, sorta got forced into the "backwards vs. how they say it" order, so wonder if the speech switched around to reflect that?

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That's big. Calling non-americans dumb for their date-system but still using the imperial system instead of the far superior metric system. Not to mention using fahrenheit for temperature instead of celcius...

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smallest time period / mid length time period / longest time period.
day/month/year, absolutely fucking sensible.
but hey, i guess when USA'ians (Bolivians are Americans too, but even they are sensible enough to use metric) learn their ACB's at school that they live 3 yards, 2 miles and 7 inches away from, that they start at 45 seconds, 8 hours and 30mins in the morning, you can kind of forgive them for their archaic backwards ways.
and yes, we say "1st of October" here in places other than the UK too, because we speak English, not some foreign sub-dialect that uses incorrect grammar and spelling.
hell, even if the syntax was acceptable, you'd still be missing the letter "s" and the word "day" from "Octobers' 1st Day" for it to be anywhere near a coherent statement.