@mk

Neither of those is the american date format. Our format is MM/DD/YYYY

It makes sense as it goes from numbers with the least maximum to the highest maximum:

(12 months)/(28 - 31 days)/(thousands of years).

@hans_w

@freemo @mk @hans_w And what's the use of that?
This way you could make sense of any order:
DD/YYYY/MM - The fastest changing number in front, tagged by the year.
MM/YYYY/DD - The season defining number in front....
YYYY/DD/MM - The day number nicely tucked between the static numbers...

@mk
Eh, the 'good' there is the ISO date format.

An international standard that the Americans generally never follow. ;)

@freemo @hans_w

@trinsec

ohh..then i like ISO :-)

@freemo @hans_w

@trinsec

Some of us do follow it, when we're not being held hostage by form fill-in fields or antiquated style guides. Sometimes I'll compromise by using the European format with the month in letters, but otherwise I strongly prefer ISO 8601.

@mk @freemo @hans_w