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by anotherevan 3151 days ago
I often use "D MMM YYYY" (e.g., "5 Nov 2017") in my UIs when it is practical as I think it is the easiest to read, unambiguous date representation, at least amongst English speaking humans.

I'll use YYYY-MM-DD internally, or in places where sorting is important (e.g., as part of file names).