Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
and the most logical way to refer to a date from it.

Oh, what's my favorite? Why didn't you say? The best way is ISO 8601 which Faldo referred to: YYYY-MM-DD link. (It's an international standard. Can't get much better than that.)

I agree. My order of preference is:
1. what you call ISO 8601
2. the British/Australian method of day month year
3. the US system of month day year
But i also believe that my preference is based on logic.