I'm pretty sure it's a huge conspiracy from the USA.
"Look how we'll confuse everyone...
first step: Use bastard units with ugly relations to one another.
Second step: Instead of writing the date in ascending or descending importance, we'll just insert the days in the middle.
Fuck you world, sincerely, USA."
hahahahah couldnt fukn agree enough
Don't forget: "we'll call a thousand million a billion, and a billion a trillion, so given enough time we'll be off several levels of magnitude from the rest of the world"