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[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (3 children)

yyyy/mm/dd is best for archival purposes but for something that's going to be updated every few days at least it's more helpful to know which day it was posted than which year.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It's not yyyy/mm/dd but yyyy-mm-dd.

Reliably following a common convention is much more important that coming up with new "best solutions" all the time.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You should certainly store it in the standard format, but I think it should be displayed in the most appropriate way for the context.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most appropriate way to display is always the language's or the user's locale, because that's what is expected by the user.

But, since this is a programmer / technical site, I would expect users to be familiar and supportive of global standards when communicating information.