The English do that. They use DMY order, and they sometimes spell out the ordinal day, whereas US usage is MDY with the ordinal spoken but almost never written.
The Germans write 1. Juli 2013, where the period is not a decimal point but an ordinal indicator. The Russians write it 1 июля 2013 (DMY, no written ordinal). In Spanish, it's 01 de julio 2013 (1[st] of July 2013).
My guess as to ghostwriter: Englishwoman Sarah Harrison, who works with the WikiLeaks legal defense team and is traveling with Snowden.
