As a non-American, seriously was close to one of my first thoughts too. Then again, I think when my fellow Canadians use that format - it's inherently ambiguous, and most likely to be understood only/mostly by Americans.
(We're more likely to use dd/mm/yy, but that's still ambiguous, and is most likely to confuse Americans.... I always use yy/mm/dd in the completely unvalidated and taken on faith belief that it will be clear. YMMV, etc.)
Right, this should have been ISO8601 to remove any ambiguity. I just think it's surprising and offensive that:
1) People consider the American format to be the one and only legitimate format, and everything else is met with resistance
2) I am getting downvoted for stating this
It wouldn't surprise me if the OP is not an American, and they simply used the format native to them. Do we really consider this enough reason to start ridiculing it?
(We're more likely to use dd/mm/yy, but that's still ambiguous, and is most likely to confuse Americans.... I always use yy/mm/dd in the completely unvalidated and taken on faith belief that it will be clear. YMMV, etc.)