yea it really makes no sense at all. I dunno who thought that up to have in month/day/year but they really dropped the ball on that one. Then to make it worse, about 1/3 of everything is day/month/year here and the other 2/3rds month/day/year then if it's an expiry date that says 01/05/12 did it expire on the 5th of January or is it still good till the 1st of May?? always fucks with your mind.