I think we need to establish an international standard on the matter, here in the UK we use Day-Month-Year, but in the US it's Month-Day-Year. In my opinion both are wrong it should be Year-Month-Day, the larger units should be on the left - the same as any other measureing system.
Well, for example look at the top of this page, near the Poll Graph, you will see: "This poll will close on 05-18-2006 at 05:50 PM". If the day would be less than 12, you wouldn't be able to make it out.
actually a moderator of this forum has given us the power to decide which format we want using a poll. lets wait until we get the final results of the poll and then we will decide what to do. if there are more votes for "other" then we can decide whether to use the international format or the millitary convention. but until now "Day-Month-Year" has got the most votes.
Actually I beleive that you can install a "user date preference hack" to vBulletin and let each user decide for themselves what format they prefer. Then you can set a default format for visitors.