[Right Wing Assault]

The 'dd/mm/yyyy' format does not appear to be a universal style in England yet.

From this website in a thread called "American vs British style of writing dates":

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t1952-45.htm

David Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:32 pm GMT

What a stupid discussion:

Fact is:

Both day-month-year and month-day-year are used in Britain. And the month-day-year version is even preferred by British newspapers:

Let's see:

The Times: February 17, 2005

Guardian: Feburary 17, 2005

Economist: February 17th 2005

And there are also influential American publications (especially academic publications) that use day-month-year, for example:

Science Magazine: 17 February 2005

Physical Review Letters: 17 February 2005

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and from Saturday's Times of London, check out the date, September 5, 2009:

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[1066AD]

When using all numbers, written, you’ll never see anything other than dd/mm/yy or dd/mm/yyyy in common use.

[ReignOfError]

Completely misses the point. The issue isn’t how Britons write the date with the month spelled out, i.e. “September 5” or “5 September.” The issue is how they abbreviate it: “9/5/2009” or “5/9/2009.” The discussion you linked to only addresses that in passing, and doesn’t cite any examples of the “American” form being used in Britain.