"European date format"
Hey, less of the attempted minimising, yankee-boy! It's certainly not only Europe that writes or quotes dates in logical hierarchical order.
Don't try to pretend that these are two competing date standards, because they aren't. The whole world uses the logical DD/MM/YYYY format, not only Europe (which is not the the same as EU, use EUR if you really must), with greater or lesser use of ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) in officialese (and sometimes in personal usage).
The only country that ever thought that a goatse-like "middle first" date format was a good idea is the USA. The rest of the world recoils in horror, and we roll our collective eyes, and reach for the mind bleach.
Note that Date format by country shows the above (date formats in use, not goatse!), there is only one country in MDY red (they're the bad guys, yeah, you taught us that?) and everyone else uses DMY and/or ISO 8601.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
