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In article <1992Dec16.171133.2856@lsl.co.uk>, snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
|> The above aside, I'm always puzzled as to how the American date convention
|> started: Mont/Day/Year is neither LSB or MSB, where as Day/Month/Year and
|> Year/Month/Day have obvious reasoning behind them.
|> -- 

One reason that has been suggested to me is that it's based on the size of
number and organized smallest to largest.  The largest month is 12, largest
day is 31, and largest year is >1992.

But I think the real reason is because Month/Day/Year is the way a date is
written out in short form.  For example:
	"The event occured on the 25th of May in 1968"
which is shorten to
	"The event occured on May 25, 1968"
which is shorten to
	"The event occured on 5/25/68"


/jack