Hi again,
Oh yes some interesting replies here. I had forgotten that other areas write their date out a little differently then here in the US.
That also means that areas that express their date as dd/mm/yy will have different occurrences where the date appears sequential, but here in the US we will run out of them after 12/13/14 because we use mm/dd/yy which means the last usable month is 12 so there can never be a 13/14/15 for us. If you use dd/mm/yy then you can have 11/12/13 but you can not have 12/13/14. So it looks like this is the last for you until the next 1000 years roll over when you can again have 01/02/03, 02/03/04, etc., unless we use a 100 year rollover (probably more likely) and then you'll have 01/02/03 again in the year 2103.
I had also forgotten that we do this 'rollover' thing when using only 2 digits for the year, but that means that the combinations that we see around this time in history still wont occur again for another 100 years. That's still a long time.
Here in the US it runs out after 12/13/14.
Although i follow the date format mm/dd/yy for most things i do it mainly because that's the accepted standard in the US. If i had my way, i would use the format yyyy/mm/dd because that is numerically the most accurate way to do it. I believe that because not only does it use the full 4 digits for the year, but it also has the most significant part of the date come first (year), next significant comes next (month), followed by the least significant (day). That way when dates are sorted they follow the natural order of regular numbers like 123, 456, etc., where the most significant digit comes first and least significant last and in between numbers are written from left to right in order of decreasing significance.
I actually must use this order (yyyy/mm/dd) when sorting items with dates in programs so there's really no choice there, and that usually means reordering the mm/dd/yy format to yyyy/mm/dd format before i can start the sort, then put everything back to mm/dd/yy after the sort. So you can see what extra work this brings in. If we always used yyyy/mm/dd i would not have to do that reordering and then re-reordering. Too bad we dont.