WH meltdown, cont.: Press officer snaps at UK journalist for laughing at birth date format confusion

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55. I almost always use the

day/month/year format except when a form explicitly states otherwise, e.g. US Government forms (IRS, passport, etc.)

When I am in the US though, I always spell the month out, e.g., 27 January 2017.

I learned the other format as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the 1960s. It is also used exclusively in Europe and in most countries around the world. We are NOT in the majority and for any USG press officer to get up in arms about something so trivial shows just how amateur hour-ish and arrogant the whole Trump Administration is.

I also learned to use the slash when writing the number "7" and the letter "z" in the 1960s.

The whole world is laughing at us.