yeah i no...weird

Yeah but that in Ireland and UK and more places it means 2nd of August so it would be wrong one way and right the other.

That's odd.
I've always written date, month, then year. I've just checked my computer, and it does it in that order too. It could be a British + British colony thing that America got rid of when they went independent. (Like with colour. You spell it color, I spell it colour.)