That's weird, the whole sequence of numbers working out this way in the US system of noting dates! I hadn't realized that. Thanks, Doctor Q, for your astute and interesting observation!
Lo these many many moons ago I spent a brief period in my professional library career as a cataloguer, (before we were working in and with digital databases, although we were verging on the cusp of that around then, but many of us didn't know it yet) and as such, quickly became accustomed to thinking of names in terms of
"Jobs, Steven Paul." (with or without birth and [if available] death dates)
Now, years later, well, I have to admit, I still tend to think of names arranged precisely in that order!
When filling out a form in which I need to list my own name I have to be careful to check before typing or manually cursively writing or printing my name to see in which way they want the listing: first name first, last name first, whatever.....
It just comes naturally to me to have my list of contacts arranged in the way which works for me (last name first, then first name and middle name or middle initial) rather than the order being something like
"Steve Jobs" (not that he is or ever was in my contacts list, mind you, this was just an example!).
