What is today’s date? If you answered this question with December 11, 2019 (read December the eleventh, two thousand and nineteen), you should go on reading.
The day-month-year date format (e.g., 11 December 2019) is officially adopted by the vast majority of the world’s countries.
The year-month-day date format (e.g., 2019-12-11) is officially adopted by China, Japan, Korea, and Iran, and is also the date format of the ISO 8601 standard.
The month-day-year date format (e.g., December 11, 2019) is officially adopted by the USA only (although contamination of this format can be found in a few other countries). Like most standards adopted in the USA, the month-day-year date format is bizarre at best, as shown in the following illustration:

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