AR88 resistor marking confusion explained

[Nick]

I find the American style of dates useful for getting computer files to appear in date order on the screen.

Any decent application, when asked to sort by date or time, doesn't do a text-based collation - it sorts the dates in their binary format and then displays them in the locale format, i.e., the sorting of date/time information should never be affected by display/locale formats in force - its completely independent of the visualisation.