Present Joys

I recently had a conversation with my twitter friend Aegir Hallmundur about the different ways people write the date. I’m quite partial to the British D-M-Y format, instead of the confusing and awkward American convention of M-D-Y. Aegir reminded me of these old Polish postage stamps that he’d highlighted on his blog. Apparently it’s relatively common in eastern Europe to use Roman numerals to notate the month. Its a great solution to that perennial which one of these numbers is the month and which is the day? confusion and beautiful to boot. I’m posting it here because I think more people should pick up this habit.