Easy as 1,2,3 .

... 4,5,6,7,8,9

[coopster]

On Wednesday of this week at five minutes and six seconds past 4:00 a.m. it is going to be 04:05:06 07/08/09. This and more exciting news at 10.

[LifeinAsia]

I think that's the count UP to Doomsday.

[swa66]

A bit later in the year it'll be
11/10/09 08:07:06
Now that sounds more like a countdown.

[LifeinAsia]

Right- what goes up, must come down...

[g1smd]

Depends if you're writing dates as mm/dd/yy or as dd/mm/yy.

Of course, there's also yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss with the items ordered as big-endian. :)

[weeks]

no geeks here, noooo