Possibly because that's the order that people usually say the dates. If you have a date like 2008/02/27, it's not too much of a stretch to think that someone might say 'February the 27th, 2008' and therefore write the date 02/27/2008 to correspond with that.
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Possibly because that's the order that people usually say the dates. If you have a date like 2008/02/27, it's not too much of a stretch to think that someone might say 'February the 27th, 2008' and therefore write the date 02/27/2008 to correspond with that.