OK, so on the Global scale of world issues, this is not number one. I accept that. However, surely this is in the top 100 (at least I think so). Today I was surfing the web (as I am wont to do) and what should I see at the end of an article I am reading but no less than three different date formats! I mean come on people, surely we can solve this simple yet important problem:

It was my great (yet sadly deluded) hope that humanity would get its act together with the arrival of the new millennium when the problem of completing date formats posed an increased problem. Here is a great site that basically sums up my opinion on this matter.