This is the official date format in Canada. Unfortunately you often see aa/bb/yyyy, and good luck figuring whether “aa” is the day and “bb” the month (British-style) or vice versa (American-style, and significantly stupider because it doesn’t follow a clear endianess)
I feel like from shortest to longest would make the most sense, wouldn’t it? Especially since you don’t need the year often times. American style is actually crazy.
DD-MM-YYYY is what is most commonly used in Europe, and in my opinion it is perfectly acceptable and logical to use.
But YYYY-MM-DD does have one major benefit that makes it extremely useful for archival purposes. When you sort it alphabetically, it also sorts correctly by date.
You can even keep going and use YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:SS…
I’d say biggest first is a more natural extension of our numbering system, like in the number 5,678 the digit on the left represent the biggest unit, of thousands. You can still omit the year without ambiguity. But it doesn’t really matter as long as there is a standard way that makes sense, unlike the mess we have now.
This is the official date format in Canada. Unfortunately you often see aa/bb/yyyy, and good luck figuring whether “aa” is the day and “bb” the month (British-style) or vice versa (American-style, and significantly stupider because it doesn’t follow a clear endianess)
I feel like from shortest to longest would make the most sense, wouldn’t it? Especially since you don’t need the year often times. American style is actually crazy.
DD-MM-YYYY is what is most commonly used in Europe, and in my opinion it is perfectly acceptable and logical to use.
But YYYY-MM-DD does have one major benefit that makes it extremely useful for archival purposes. When you sort it alphabetically, it also sorts correctly by date.
You can even keep going and use YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:SS…
I’d say biggest first is a more natural extension of our numbering system, like in the number 5,678 the digit on the left represent the biggest unit, of thousands. You can still omit the year without ambiguity. But it doesn’t really matter as long as there is a standard way that makes sense, unlike the mess we have now.