MDY is syntactically correct English: January 30th, 2012. Or in older form (where it would have come from): "Dated: January the 30th, in the year of our Lord 2012." Even the US Constitution is dated this way. I strongly prefer this way because it makes the most sense in the English language.
For programmatic sorting YMD makes sense because is automatically sorts by Y, M, D, if compared as a string. (EG: on a filesystem.)
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MDY is syntactically correct English: January 30th, 2012. Or in older form (where it would have come from): "Dated: January the 30th, in the year of our Lord 2012." Even the US Constitution is dated this way. I strongly prefer this way because it makes the most sense in the English language.
For programmatic sorting YMD makes sense because is automatically sorts by Y, M, D, if compared as a string. (EG: on a filesystem.)