Why do some dates look like this 24/03/07...i thought there was only 12 months?

Question

Like for example:

- 22/05/07

- 25/17/07

- 19/10/07

& any moth that would get over 12.

I always see it...

Like on MySpace it would say last login date: 19/08/07

What are those dates called? Or how would you know which month they are exactly talking about?

Answer 1

Different countries use different ways of showing the dates.  Canada and the U.S. are different, and for the life of me , I can't remember which is which because I see both of them regularly. One of your examples though has me puzzled  "25/17/07 " ..did you make that one up?  

Answer 2

In most of the world, dates are written day-month-year instead of month-day-year as they are in the U.S. and Canada.  

It's the international standard, so a number of websites default to it.

Answer 3

They're written that way in Europe and in a lot of other countries. There is no 25/17/07. 22/05/07 is the 22nd of May, 2007.

Answer 4

This is the British way of writing the date: day, month year.

In the US you do it month, day, year.

Answer 5

When the date is in that form the month is second and the day is first.  The first example of 22/05/07 is May 22, 2007.

Answer 6

are you american?

cos in england

24/03/07 would be 24th of March 2007

because the first number is the day

second - month

third- year

in america the day and month are other way round