The rest of the world finds the US format strange.



What I find more interesting about this is that's it's due to cultural evolution. I'm British and if you walk around a churchyard you'll see the older gravestones all use what is now the US format. That was the original format we used but at some point, someone decided it was more logical to use ascending order and eventually that became universally used. The USA is still yet to make that step. It's the same with most of the US English language differences in spelling and pronunciation. The US still uses a lot of old English and the 2 languages evolve separately.