The irony of this is the Stardock forums show Month > Day > Year instead of the supposed Day > Month > Year that you claim to be the correct way

day/month/year is the most intuitive way as far as I'm concerned. Month/day/year is... wierd.  Dunno why the US sticks to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#dd.2Fmm.2Fyyyy.2C_dd.mm.yyyy.2C_dd.2Cmm.2Cyyyy_or_dd-mm-yyyy_.28day.2C_month.2C_year.29

Apparently, we're non-conformists?  

If it ain't broke why fix it? Besides...it'll fix itself in 2012.

YOU MUST CONFORM TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER.

Your name is totally on the list. You have brought this entirely on yourself.

The IAU (International Astronomical Union) lists the date format as either DD/MM/YY (1900 to 1999 only) or YYYY/MM/DD. All astronomy should be conducted within these formats.

So why a piece of astronomical equipment should have the wrong format, dunno. All it does is cause problems.

This is the only forum I visit which has the date that way round

it just don't look right 11 August 2010 (11/08/10)

now this looks right August 11, 2010 (08/11/10)

as for astronomical equipment I don't know to poor to have a NICE telescope

but me's likes the Cosmos

The Cosmos is all it is or ever was or ever will be.

  We are, a way for the cosmos to know it’s self.

yes I said Me's

Anyway, forums are irrelevant. In the world of astronomy 11/08/10 and 08/11/10 are ambiguous and would render observations useless, which is why you have an internationally accepted format.

I actually had a problem with the date format when I first arrived in Norway. The first week I was here I tried to gain entry to a bar where you had to be 20+ to get in. I'm born on March 6 and this was April, so I had just turned 20, but they wouldn't let me in because my NY drivers said 03/06 which in their mind was June 3rd.

Funny how drunkenly arguing with the bouncer didn't make him believe I was old enough!

When in doubt, read the directions..

That makes perfect sense.

To be fair, it sounds like it's a reporting format, not a "telescope input format". If there's some rule that requires all telescopes to conform to the same date format then you have a case, otherwise you're basically complaining about software presumably made in the US that uses the standard US date format.

It may be annoying, but chances are the guys who write it aren't actually astronomers

This is one of the rare points in measurement where the US hasn't made an illogical choice with bad repercussions.  DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY are both arbitrary decisions from a usage stand point, dates in long form can be done both ways while proper usage.  The only thing you can possibly say about one over the other is that the time span being referenced increases from shortest to longest by the one way, which would then be shot to hell if you time stamp your date.

Since we're on a forum filled with geeks...  You can do a 12 count in four bits while getting to 31 takes five, in terms of computing resources, MM/DD/YY would be going from least to greatest.

Sorry to tell you Fuzzy but both conventions are wrong. I understand all the Space agencies (including those where they drive on the wrong side of the road) agreed to follow the formats found HERE