You know that, and I know that, but do we know the person who originated the information knows that?
And people are always saying that I make assumptions!
Hmmm...maybe we should start a thread on this and gather a variety of people to speculate whether the one who wrote "7/5/2010" was in the Military, Fed Government, Post office, etc., or that the one who wrote it didn't know what he was doing. I didn't use any assumption, just logic; although using philosophy could be fun in an odd sort of way!
Belonging to a military organization, I enter dates like that on all the reports I submit - it's standard is that the day comes first, the month second and year last. Although the form we use is DDMMYYYY - 07/05/2010 which varies a little from the one posted.