OK.. Here goes. In America, we date things: mm/dd/yyyy.
In England, and English colonies and commonwealths, they typically date things: dd/mm/yyyy.
So look at Mom’s date of birth: 11/29/42, or the 11th day of the 29th month of 1942. But in England, there are only 20 months in a year! (OK, I’m joking) There is no 29th month.
Also look at John Kwame Odongo’s signature date: 8/7/1961
or July 8, 1961. BUT Obama was born on August 4, 1961. The doctor signed this about a month BEFORE Obama was born.
Now one person might date it Americanized. But two subjects dating it Americanized?
parsy, who is waiting to find out if he is brilliant or stupid
Maybe the forger was an idiot, or two signatures/dates belong to people educated in the US?
Do you have any idea how many tens of thousands of Kenyans obtained their education in the US?
True, but on a hunch, when this was first released, I may have been the first person to find on the Wiki international date format page that Kenya is one of the few countries in the world that was listed as regularly using BOTH formats.
The original source data (from memory) came from IBM software manuals that were used to set up computer software formats by country around the world.
An Obot named Mystylplx immediately edited the Wiki page, but was reversed and locked for a time, but now all specific references to Kenya using two formats have disappeared from the text of the page except for the world map, which may have been harder for the Obot scrubbers to edit.
Kenya is still color-coded purple on the world map as a dual format country at this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country
There is a ready explanation for two formats in the fact that Kenya, when founded, was formed by the merger of two separate legal entities, Kenya Colony and Coast Province, which may well have used two different formats in their separate clerical cultures.