I do this too when writing a date.

People still give me a hard time about it, even my wife. 🤣

I would never write 3/4/03, for example.

You can easily know it’s 2003.

But how in the world could you constantly communicate with people from diverse backgrounds anything more?

Is it the 3rd of April?

Or the 4th of March?

I mean, why no clarity or consistency?

I would write this as: 3 April 2003

By the end of my London stay, a few Anglicisms had seeded themselves into my mind, forever to remain: the proper use and spelling of the word “queue,” the reversal of month and day when writing a date, and an obsessive and unrelenting adherence to teatime, with proper tea brewed in a pot.

– Rosanne Cash, Composed (Amazon)