@dantheclamman The fact that people in non-YMD cultures are adopting YMD because "it's handy" in a digital age (myself included) just proves how volatile consensus is. It's nothing to do with logic but with #linguistics: North American people (including Canadians here on purpose) adopted that probably because at that moment it was natural to write dates the way they spoke and thought about them.

That doesn't mean I don't hate it when I face one of those out, of course!