Glad to hear you're ok...

Unlike the rest of the States, the U.S. military used to write out numerical dates in day/month/year order -- January 5, 1945 would be written as 5/1/45. To avoid potential confusion, the U.S. military eventually standardized on writing out the month using the first three letters of the month -- January 5, 1945 would be written as 05 Jan 45.

The American scientific establishment has shifted over to SI units, but American industry still often uses traditional weights and measures. Something got lost in the communication between NASA scientists and Lockheed Martin engineers.

The Scandinavians write dates in year/month/day order. Apparently this is far more efficient because you can continue with hours/minutes/seconds and so on... very useful in IT apparently.

I once taught English to a bunch of people at a French bank and they told me that an unfortunate gent had once sent $800k from one country to another. Because of confusion with the way the date was written on the transfer documents, he was unable to receive the money and it is still floating around the international banking system...