Data entry and its quirks

I just noticed how different companies often have their own ways of doing data entry, which can be really confusing. For instance, where I work, we use a specific format for dates that isn’t the standard one. Why do we do it that way? It seems like it would save a lot of time if we just stuck to one method.

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