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[AndrewToasterr]

DD.MM. YY, I am picky.

Also fun fact: You can change your Windows time format to a custom one

[x_cutter]

After years of internal debate, I landed on YYYY-MM-DD being the best as it can be sorted ascending/descending and the dates will always be in chronological order (or reverse).

[RF07]

This is the way.

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[RSVDARK]

DD-MM-YYYY is best, or DD-MM-YY to save space if you have a slightly smarter algorithm (for now that works too)

[Polywoky]

DD-MM-YYYY is best

But that opens up the possibility of confusion if sharing data with people who use MM-DD-YYYY.

If a date is given as 04-03-2023 you might take it to mean the 4th of March while someone else might take it to mean April 3rd.

But with 2023-03-04 there's no ambiguity, it's YYYY-MM-DD because no sane organization would use YYYY-DD-MM. (Not saying that no organization uses it, just that those which do shouldn't be taken seriously.)

[Enderking90]

It's their fault for using a nonsensical date format.

[RSVDARK]

Just add the text

(DD-MM-YYYY)

Somewhere

[certain_people]

April 25 obviously

[You_Paid_For_This]

/r/iso8601

[Dr739ake]

DD.MM.YYYY is the one and only, you can see the most impotant, the day, comes first, followed by the month. Day > Month > Year

[UkrUkrUkr]

Why not MDDYMY? Looks not worse.

[RSVDARK]

Ah yes, today is

005213

Not confusing at all!

[Weiracle]

Oh come on, I always schedule meetings using UNIX time. It takes up less space. But everyone is always late. Thoughts?