(Pretty sure the Chinese don't use MM.DD for dates)

Do you have anything to back that up? For example, I speak to (and text with) Chinese people frequently, and can say from personal experience that M.D (zero padding is unusual) is quite common. Less than a week ago a Chinese student asked me to look over her application to a Canadian university and I recommended that dates written like 10.6 be reformatted to, using the example, "Oct 6". Where are you getting your ideas from?

edit:

Here's an image of a flyer that I was given today, advertising an event of the campus Russian club. You'll note that the event is scheduled for "2014.12.19 19:00"

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5fclcou9z39dl5/mmexport1418392916...

I think the question now is, where do you get off randomly spreading misinformation about topics you're obviously not familiar with?

> (Pretty sure the Chinese don't use MM.DD for dates)

Wikipedia says China is big-endian, matching iso8601.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Asi...

Didn't seem likely that Chinese censors would make that kind of mistake. 1989.6.4 is, of course, the date of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

iOS autocorrect turns "tiananmen" into "tiara man". This could be construed as a form of censorship (or dialogue-shaping?) as well.

Well they use Y年M月D日 for full dates, so I would imagine they would use M.D in an abbreviation?