[petercooper]

Yeah, I thought about that as I was writing my comment and realized that's why I always write "back to front dates" with dashes instead of slashes. I think it's probably because I always use that format in filenames and slashes feel like a very bad idea there ;-)

[ninjaoxygen]

Yes, it would be so great if there could be a standard for dates formatted this way. It would have to be called something awesome like ISO 8601! ;-)

That is definitely also my preferred format, everything just sorts naturally then. Not so in love with the 2017-09-25T12:00 format as it does not work for filenames on my OS.

[lifthrasiir]

ISO 8601 supports an alternative format without separators, like 20170925T1200.

[linuxlizard]

Obligatory XKCD. https://xkcd.com/1179/

ISO8601 is very nice.

[chuckwnelson]

I love the tongue-in-cheek alt text.