At least both metric and imperial are internally consistent.
Month/Day/Year makes no mathematical sense as a breakdown of units. It's just another example of America doing something wrong and being too defensive to admit it.
When the time is 09:10, a lot of people would say 'It's ten minutes past nine' if speaking out loud, that doesn't mean people write it as '10:09' in digital format just because of how they verbalize it. Because that would be retarded.
It makes zero sense to break the measurement into months/days/years in that order. What time does your stopwatch say? 09:24:17, that's right 17 minutes past 9:00 and 24 seconds
Saying it makes zero sense to you is not the same as saying it makes zero sense. It makes complete sense to at least 320 million people.
Your example is a false comparison. 2/1/2016 is not digital, it is analog, just like clocks were before digital ones were developed.
You're pissing up a rope when you try to say that people don't write dates in the format of month, day, year because they do, all over North America.
You may not like the custom or style of the format. All format is is an agreed convention. The only people confused by the NA format are Euros, and that's ok with me.
It's just another example of America doing something wrong and being too defensive to admit it.
Do you realize what a self satisfied prig you sound like?
And with the comment "That's how we Euros do it." I believed to be clear about my intentions. Guess that OP isn't the only one with a questionable state of mind here tho. Therefore I apologize for hurting someone's "Muuuurican" feelings. 
It's what I've come to expect from self important krauts, false apologies not withstanding.
