That, and the fact that April only has 30 days.

I've always liked things this way...02 Nov 13, simply *because* there's way too many times that seeing it as dd-mm-yy or dd/mm/yy or yyyy.mm.dd can too easily be mixed up unless the 'day' number is larger than the 'year' number and *because* in a place like a forum with users from all over the globe this is *exactly* what will happen - one person puts it one way another another and one is left trying to figure out what is what.

I dunno, I guess my way (which is military, btw, in the USA and IIRR Israel) could also be confusing as someone could wonder if the day or year is first/last.

Meh...I don't see any one way that is better than another.

Doh! Well, color me pink with embarrassment. Personally I've always thought we'd be better off with 13 months of 28 days with one of them 29 days.

Don't worry - it's just a convention that we use. We might as well use a calendar with 11 months. I have never understood October anyway.

I know for a fact that I do not know when it will be released.

Actually, YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) always works and is unambiguous because no country in the world uses YYYY-DD-MM. Hence if you see the date 2013-11-02 it absolutely, must be the 2th day of November 2013.

Your suggestion of 02 Nov 13 fails on greater than 100 year time spans and additionally might be confusing because not every country calls the 11th month "November" (consider the number of languages in the world). So no, it is not an improvement on the international standard, ISO 8601.