[kuschku]

Actually it doesn’t, there’s standards for that.

YYYY-MM-DD

DD.MM.YYYY

MM/DD/YYYY

Notice the separators. Except for parts of Japan and Australia, these are international standards and used everywhere.

[allenbrunson]

it's pretty obvious that, if those standards were being followed all the time, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

i am talking about an ad hoc, fairly simple thing one can do, if one is writing user-facing code. it's a rule i follow, and i offered it up as something other people might want to try as well.