Freedom Clock
One thing I've come to learn is that American formats are human-friendly rather than machine-friendly.<p>Our date system is like the Fahrenheit system; it works well when thinking like a human.<p>in Fahrenheit, you just think of it in terms of 50 being the middle, "not cold and not hot". Then you understand 80 is high warm, closing in on hot, etc.<p>Similarly for our date system, we lead with names and important information rather than numbers. We're not feeding a number into a machine, we're speaking to humans.<p>Consider any other Label. You don't say "25th Apartment", you say "Apartment 25", "Unit 25", "P.O. Box 25"<p>Here we are on March 25. The year comes last because it's least important.